CHATSWORTH : Carjacking Re-Enacted in Hunt for Murderer
The police were stymied.
They had a murder victim, five eyewitnesses, an offer of a $40,000 reward--and no suspect. So they did what any red-blooded, television-watching Americans would do: they staged a re-enactment of the crime--the carjack murder of Chatsworth resident Naghi Ghoraishy--and invited the media.
“A lot of crimes have been solved through re-enactments” on television shows like ‘Unsolved Mysteries’ and ‘America’s Most Wanted,’ ” said Los Angeles Police Capt. Vance Proctor of the department’s Devonshire Division.
Monday’s use of the technique--a first for the LAPD--at the Chatsworth gas station where the killing occurred has won praise from police and the producers of tabloid TV shows. But critics say it inappropriately makes journalists a part of the law enforcement process, and could lead to harassment of people who look like the actor who played Ghoraishy’s murderer.
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