Boyfriend arrested in fatal Hermosa Beach shooting
David Brian Abbott. Photo courtesy HBPD Shortly after 5 o’clock on New Year’s Eve morning, residents of the Seahorse apartments in the 700 block of Manhattan Avenue heard a woman in a downstairs unit scream, “Don’t shoot.” The plea was followed by the sound of a pop, and then silence. One of the neighbors called Hermosa police, who arrived at the apartments at 5:15 a.m., within a minute of the call, and arrested a man they identified as David Brian Abbott, 33, whom they found standing in front of the complex. They entered the apartment where the scream was heard and found Samantha Ann Sproson, 38, dead from a gunshot to the head. Abbott was scheduled for arraignment in connection with the shooting this week, Hermosa police said. The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department was assisting Hermosa police detectives in the first homicide investigation since 2003 in the 1.3 square-mile town of about 19,500 residents. A neighbor said Sproson and Abbott were a couple, and lived just steps away from each other in separate apartments at the Seahorse. “They were toxic when they were together,” the neighbor said, declining to elaborate. “It’s just eerie,” the neighbor said. “It’s not supposed…
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