A father and his daughter were mysteriously gunned down in 2001. Now, answers finally come
LOS ANGELES — Stephen Murphy was buckling his 2-year-old daughter, Kali, into her car seat when he heard gunfire in his Compton neighborhood. He thought the safest place to take cover was his grandmother's house, just down the street on Willowbrook Avenue. So he snatched Kali and ran toward his grandmother's front door. But he never made it all the way up the porch. Murphy, 24, and his ...
LOS ANGELES — Stephen Murphy was buckling his 2-year-old daughter, Kali, into her car seat when he heard gunfire in his Compton neighborhood.
He thought the safest place to take cover was his grandmother's house, just down the street on Willowbrook Avenue.
So he snatched Kali and ran toward his grandmother's front door.
But he never made it all the way up the porch.
Murphy, 24, and his daughter were killed in a hail of to everyone except their family and cold case detectives. The pair were casualties of something they didn't ask to take part in, their relatives said at the time: a gang war.
