[HPN] LAPD under the gun;will they solve this crime?

[William Tinker]

CALIFORNIA
A 36-year-old homeless man was found dead at a Ventura moving and
 storage company Wednesday morning with several bullet wounds to the chest,
 police said.
 David Wayne Dowden was found by an employee at Hilford Moving & Storage
 at Market Street and Arundell Circle about 9:30 a.m.

 The transient's body was at the back of the company's warehouse in a
 large wooden box normally used to store goods outside. The box was a
regular
sleeping place for Dowden, employees of the company said.

 "He never bothered anyone. He never spoke to anyone," said Gloria
 Criss, the company's vice president. "He would only be around really early
 in the mornings and really late at night. He was usually gone by daylight."

 Criss said Ventura police had on occasion asked Dowden to leave the
 area when they found him behind the warehouse.

 The warehouse is in a primarily industrial area of midtown Ventura.

 Police do not know the exact time of Dowden's death, but said it was at
 least several hours before the body was discovered. Multiple gunshot wounds
 led to Dowden's death, which is being investigated as a homicide, police
Lt.
 Gary McCaskill said.

 Officers have been searching the area for witnesses, but have few
 leads, McCaskill said.

 Police ask anyone with information to call Det. Sgt. Bob Anderson at
 339-4482 or Det. Pat Stevens at 339-4479.