MONTEREY PARK, Calif.—Sheriff’s detectives and relatives of a Marine who was beaten and run over by a car, leaving him dead on a Bellflower street, pleaded July 24 for anyone who may have witnessed the crime or have information about the killing to come forward. Bellflower is about 20 miles south of Los Angeles.
Peter Chounthala, 42, was attacked and beaten by at least two male suspects around 2 a.m. on May 28 near the intersection of Virginia Avenue and Artesia Boulevard, according to the sheriff’s department. Mr. Chounthala collapsed in the street, and was subsequently struck by a car, the driver of which fled the scene.
