town house

Erin Kyle, her teenage daughter and her daughter’s best friend, who had spent the night at their town house in the Palisades Highlands, were speeding down the mountain, smoke billowing around them.

The mid-day sun felt summer hot, and there was little movement despite a dense line of town houses that were either glaring white or oddly dark; the effect was like a mouth with missing teeth.

Agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration watched the handoffs at Parkwest Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, an office complex in Downey and a town house in Temple City.

“Shortly,” Mother assured her as the limo parked in front of a three-story redbrick town house.

A Seattle criminal defense attorney retained by McNeal called 911 to report a “likely homicide” from outside a town house in the 4600 block of South Orchard Street just before 4 p.m.