Crime

Malibu kitchen worker now may have died naturally

The first report on Sunday night was that a kitchen worker at Guido's on Cross Creek Road in Malibu had been shot to death when he took out the restaurant's trash. Then the story became that the dishwasher was beaten to death by a group of assailants. Now the coroner says preliminarily that, nope, he wasn't beaten. A sheriff's department spokesman says now that the man may have died of natural causes.

Glad that's cleared up.


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