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Parents of LA man killed by intruder sue LAPD over response to prior 911 calls

Flowers are placed as front gate during a vigil for him Gabriel Donnay, 31, outside his home on Saturday, April 3, 2021 in Beverly Grove, California.

LOS ANGELES — The parents of a 31-year-old man fatally stabbed by an intruder at his home in the Beverly Grove neighborhood last year have sued the Los Angeles Police Department, claiming the police mishandled multiple 911 calls about the suspect in the hours before the attack.

Gabriel “Gabe” Donnay’s neighbors had called police on the suspect, Enoch Conners, at least four times that day for hopping fences in the neighborhood and threatening residents. Officers spoke to Conners multiple times, each time letting him go and telling the neighbors that they were safe to return to their homes, according to the lawsuit.

In doing so, the LAPD “unreasonably created a false sense of security” in the

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