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Article: Cosby son killed while changing tire in Los Angeles.(Originated from Knight-Ridder Newspapers)
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
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- January 16, 1997
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LOS ANGELES _ The son of entertainer Bill Cosby was killed early Thursday on a dark and desolate road leading from a freeway where he had pulled over to change a flat tire.
Police said they suspect Ennis William Cosby, 27, was shot once in the head by a would-be robber who may have followed Cosby's disabled Mercedes sports car off the San Diego Freeway. A woman who drove past at 1:45 a.m. discovered his body and flagged down a highway patrol car.
He was sprawled on the ground in a pool of blood next to the hunter-green convertible. Its passenger door and trunk were gaping open, its emergency lights were blinking, a tire jack was beside the car, and ...