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# Police investigate homicide
- URL: https://www.smdp.com/police-investigate-homicide/
- Published: 2002-03-27T16:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-23T00:10:51.000Z
- Author: Guest Author
- Tags: Crime, Ocean Park, #archive-import

*By Daily Press staff*

Police are investigating a homicide that occurred Tuesday in a Santa Monica east side neighborhood.

Police responded to call from Los Angeles Police Department officials at 6:15 p.m. who asked authorities to check the status of a resident in the 2300 block of Ocean Park Boulevard.

When officers arrived, they found the body of an unidentified person in an apartment of a single-story building. Police could not confirm whether the victim was a man or woman late Tuesday night.

“We haven’t inspected the body or conducted a search of the scene yet,” said Lt. Frank Fabrega, adding police were waiting for the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office to arrive on scene shortly after 10 p.m.

The incident is the city’s second homicide of the year. Albert Victor White, also known as Algirdas Brazinskas, was charged in February with one count of murder in the Feb. 5 death of his father, 77-year-old Pranas Brazinskas.

Brazinskas and White, who lived in the 900 block of 21st Street, apparently were involved in a struggle, during which Brazinskas suffered several blows to the head with an unknown object.

In 1970, the father and son hijacked a domestic Soviet jetliner to Turkey, fatally shooting an Aeroflot flight attendant and wounding other crew members.

*Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on March 27, 2002.* [Read the original PDF.](https://s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com/smdp%5Fbackissues/032702.pdf?ref=smdp.com)