More on Spector's troubles

Written by Marty Dodge
Published December 11, 2003

Via: CMU

Police reports regarding the shooting of actress Lana Clarkson at the home
of Phil Spector earlier this year have been released after author Carlton
Smith lobbied the courts to make them public. The report of what police
found on arriving at the house shortly after the shooting is very vivid -
Clarkson was found slumped in a chair in Spector's hilltop mansion, her
broken teeth scattered around the foyer and stairway, and a blood-spattered
.38-caliber Colt revolver under her left leg.

According to a statement by Adriano Desouza, the driver who called police to
the house shortly after the shooting, he drove Spector and Clarkson from the
House of Blues club where Clarkson worked to the legendary producer's
mansion. Ten minutes after being dropped off, Spector came out and retrieved
a brown leather briefcase from the limousine. Desouza sat in the limousine
for about 90 minutes before hearing a single gunshot. Spector then came out
of a rear door with a gun in his hand and said: "I think I just shot her."

Records say police found Spector standing near the body with his hands in
his pockets. When he refused to show his hands, police used a stun gun to
subdue him and place him in custody. In all, the court papers say, 10 guns
were recovered from the mansion.

Spector claims Clarkson shot herself on the night. Spector's attorney,
Robert Shapiro, yesterday told reporters that scientific evidence "clearly
and unequivocally is consistent with a self-inflicted wound that was not the
result of any action on the part of Phil Spector."

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#1 — December 11, 2003 @ 08:05AM — Eric Olsen

Wow, does not look good for the Wall of Sound

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