Hollywood Intersection Shooter Is Identified

(CNS) – The man who marched down Sunset Boulevard, shooting at more than a dozen people and urging police to “Kill me … I’m gonna die!” was identified Saturday by the coroner’s office as a 26-year-old man who had recently moved here from Carlisle, Pa.

Tyler Brehm died on the pavement Friday, moments after two plainclothes police officers fired several shots into him. His name was not released by police until 24 hours after the shooting, at the request of his mother.

Brehm hit at least three people as he emptied a handgun into cars, and fired wildly from the middle of Vine Street, Friday morning.

John Atterberry, a music industry executive in his 40s, was shot in his face as he sat in his car near the famous intersection, in the heart of Hollywood. Atterberry was in critical condition Sunday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, according to the Los Angeles Times report that identified him.

Two passing motorists were also hit by bullets that had passed through their car door or window, police said Saturday. One was grazed by a bullet in the thigh, the other suffered glass cuts.

Numerous witnesses recorded video on cellphones, and one was heard shouting “I want to die. Shoot me,” as he leaned out of a window in an attempt to distract the gunman from nearby targets.