An search is underway for the gunman who killed a man who was sitting in his car just outside his home in Anaheim. Hetty Chang reports for the NBC4 News at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Dec. 9, 2024.
Authorities are searching for an attacker who shot and killed a man in a car Sunday night in an Anaheim neighborhood.
The victim, identified as 25-year-old Kenneth Wayne Swets, was sitting in a car in a cul de sac at about 8:30 p.m. Sunday in the 2000 block of South Margie Lane when he was shot. Swets died at the scene.
Authorities said he might have been a resident of the neighborhood. Details about what led to the shooting and a description of the shooter were not immediately available.
At least eight evidence markers were on the ground near the parked sedan. A neighbor told NBCLA she heard at least five shots.
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"He's always polite, a beautiful young man," said neighbor Kathryn Kelly. "I have no idea why."
A high school friend of the victim said he couldn't fathom why someone would shoot his former peer.
"It's unbelievable," said Edgar Cardenas, Swets' friend. "I keep thinking 'Why?' Why?"
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"All I heard was that he got shot," Cardenas continued. "It’s so unreal to me because I would never think that someone would want to do that to him – he didn’t deserve that. He was a really good person."
