By Daily Press staff
Members of the Los Angeles Police Department’s dive team and LAPD detectives searched the murky bottom of the Pacific Ocean early Thursday morning for a gun reportedly used in a murder in the mid-city area of L.A. earlier this year.
The suspect told detectives that he dropped the murder weapon into the water from the fishing deck of the Santa Monica Pier about a month ago, police said.
Dive teams searched for hours before ending the mission. No weapon was found The ocean floor, which is about 25 feet below the pier, is littered with debris and remnants of the old pier. Because visibility is only about two feet, divers had to rope off sections to search by using weighted down lines as guides.
Details of the investigation aren’t being released because it’s ongoing, police said.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on April 25, 2003. Read the original PDF.