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Originally Posted by tovangar2

Photograph caption dated December 1, 1962 reads "A police officer and a young man were wounded early today in a roaring North Hollywood gun battle and chase that ended a 2 1/2-hour crime spree. Shot during the battle were police officer R. F. Schneider, 42, and Daniel Medina, 22, one of the suspects. Neither was seriously injured. Officers said the kidnaping (sic) victim, slender, 17-year-old Donald Tingley Jr., Sunland, escaped injury while locked in the trunk of his car in the midst of the gun battle around the vehicle."

-Calisphere




newspapers.com


The serene scene of the Tingley boy's kidnapping:


gsv

The photo with the boy in the trunk was taken in front of Barris Kustom on Riverside, just east of Lankershim.