Los Angeles
A teenage party at 4156 Rosewood Ave. went terribly wrong tonight when 15-year-old Alan Jerome Gordon was accidentally shot by Edward Eisenhart, also 15, and Gordon’s closest pal. It seems Loraine Collins, 14, brought her daddy’s automatic pistol to Marcia Bronstein’s soiree, and handed it over to Edward. Edward went to demonstrate the safety mechanism, after removing the clip, and squeezed off one unlucky bullet. “I’m shot through the heart,” cried Alan, who died.
Police were called and got to hear a fanciful tale of a mysterious prowler who’d climbed through the window, killed Alan and run off, but the truth soon came out.
The dead boy lived at 126 Magnolia Court, Compton, his best friend and killer at 5449 Virginia Ave., and wee gun moll Loraine at 516 Commonwealth Ave.
