Friend: slain Hermosa Beach woman was threatened
David Abbott and Samantha Sproson 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] ‘It’s your head or your leg.’” Police and prosecutors say David Brian Abbott, 33, killed Samantha Ann Sproson, 38, his girlfriend and neighbor, with a single gunshot wound to the head shortly after 5 a.m. on New Year’s Eve. Abbott’s attorney, George Bird, a bar-certified criminal law specialist with an impressive resume, said he had not heard of the “hearsay” allegation of a previous shooting threat. “I am unaware of such a statement being made, and I am unaware that any such incident occurred,” he said. Bird said Abbott, who has worked for at least 14 years with a company owned by his uncle, appears to be “a hard working man who never hurt anyone in his life.” On the morning of Sproson’s death, neighbors in the Seahorse Apartments on Manhattan Avenue heard a woman scream, “Don’t shoot,”…
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