Jim Simmons
05-02-2005, 02:47 PM
Mexican TV Actress Dies After Seeing Gun
MEXICO CITY - A Mexican television actress died on Friday of a heart attack after a man armed with a pistol approached her vehicle on a Mexico City street, officials said.
Mariana Levy, 39, featured on the "Nuestra Casa" show on the Televisa network, developed labored breathing after seeing the weapon, said prosecutor Carlos Gurrea.
Her husband, Jose Maria Fernandez Jr., drove her to a nearby clinic where she died, Gurrea said, quoting Fernandez.
A man was arrested and later identified by Levy's husband as the man who approached the vehicle, in which the couple was taking several children to a local amusement park.
Gurrea said the suspect — who was being held on suspicion of illegal weapons possession — did not apparently directly threaten or make any contact with Levy.
He said the mere shock of seeing him approach the vehicle apparently triggered the attack.
The death shook the Mexican entertainment world. It was one of the highest-profile deaths in Mexico's persistent wave of common crime since television comedian Francisco "Paco" Stanley was gunned down alongside a Mexico City freeway in 1999.
"We cannot feel anything other than an enormous rage and indignation," Televisa news anchor Adela Micha said of Levy's death. "Even if a bullet didn't kill her, the fear and the lack of public safety did."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050430/ap_en_tv/mexico_actress_dies
Steve Fisher, can you provide an alibi for the time in question? :P
MEXICO CITY - A Mexican television actress died on Friday of a heart attack after a man armed with a pistol approached her vehicle on a Mexico City street, officials said.
Mariana Levy, 39, featured on the "Nuestra Casa" show on the Televisa network, developed labored breathing after seeing the weapon, said prosecutor Carlos Gurrea.
Her husband, Jose Maria Fernandez Jr., drove her to a nearby clinic where she died, Gurrea said, quoting Fernandez.
A man was arrested and later identified by Levy's husband as the man who approached the vehicle, in which the couple was taking several children to a local amusement park.
Gurrea said the suspect — who was being held on suspicion of illegal weapons possession — did not apparently directly threaten or make any contact with Levy.
He said the mere shock of seeing him approach the vehicle apparently triggered the attack.
The death shook the Mexican entertainment world. It was one of the highest-profile deaths in Mexico's persistent wave of common crime since television comedian Francisco "Paco" Stanley was gunned down alongside a Mexico City freeway in 1999.
"We cannot feel anything other than an enormous rage and indignation," Televisa news anchor Adela Micha said of Levy's death. "Even if a bullet didn't kill her, the fear and the lack of public safety did."
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050430/ap_en_tv/mexico_actress_dies
Steve Fisher, can you provide an alibi for the time in question? :P