Posted Nov. 10, 2014, 6:57 a.m.
The day before Halloween, Christopher Walker, 26, sat on the patio of an Altadena burger stand off Fair Oaks Avenue about 4:30 p.m.
He'd stopped on his way to pick up his 5-year-old daughter from kindergarten.
A light-colored sedan drove up. A person got out and shot at Walker multiple times. Then the shooter got back into the car and fled east on East Calaveras Street.
"No words were exchanged," said Lt. Holly Francisco with the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. It was the first homicide in Altadena, where Walker grew up, since 2012.
So far, investigators are looking for witnesses, and Walker's friends and family are stunned. After a rocky childhood, his parents, Ursula and Richard Walker, thought they had their son back.
"The man who was murdered was not some street thug," his father said.
Christopher Walker had a steady job in marketing ...
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