midtown east violence

Judging by the victim's behavior in the moments before his death, investigators believe a professional hit man may have used text messages to lure his target.

Police are currently questioning a suspect in the execution-style murder of an L.A. law student who was fatally shot in the head on 58th Street on Monday afternoon.

"The number of people they burned, and people who lost their homes, is huge," says Tony award-winning actor Tonya Pinkins, who has had a long-running feud with the mother of the midtown "assassination" victim.

Police are searching for a man who sneaked up behind Brandon Woodard in midtown yesterday and killed him with a single bullet to the back of the head, then escaped "like a ghost."