Video Store Clerks Killed; Kin Missing

Mon., March 4, 1996

Compiled From Wire Services

The fatal shootings of three video store workers after closing time early Sunday spurred police to search for one victim’s missing grandparents, since they usually drove him home from work.

The grandparents may have witnessed the crime and been kidnapped or hurt, police said.

Co-workers arriving to open the Hollywood Video store Sunday morning discovered the late-shift victims, who were tied up in a back room.

Police said robbery was a possible motive, but could not confirm whether anything was missing.

Killed were Jowanda Castillo, 18; Zachary Blacklock, 19; and Mylinh Daothi, 30. The fate of Blacklock’s grandparents, George and Pauline McDougal, baffled police.

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