Friend: slain Hermosa Beach woman was threatened

A Hermosa Beach man accused of shooting his girlfriend to death had aimed a gun at her head once before, said a friend of the slain woman. “It was around April, she called me up and she was really upset,” said the friend, who spoke on condition of anonymity. “She said ‘You can’t tell anybody, not even your boyfriend.’ She said he put a gun to her head [and said]