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Eighteen months after Paul Bilodeau, a City Hall project manager at a Fire Station construction site, was mysteriously murdered while working late on a Friday night, the Culver City Police Dept. this afternoon identified the alleged killer:
[img]891|left|||no_popup[/img]Myron Deshun Grant, 25 years old, described as a known gang member, was charged last Thursday with killing Mr. Bilodeau, on Jan, 2, 2009, with special circumstances attached, murder in the commission of a robbery.
His motive is believed to have been a random robbery that, for reasons still unknown, went sour.
On the vast and emphatically dark lot in Fox Hills where Fire Station No. 3 had been under construction for months, Mr. Bilodeau, a contract worker for the city of Culver City, had returned to his office in a trailer on the property after a cheery Friday evening dinner with an uncle.
Unmarried and devoted to his aging parents in the Ventura area, the 45-year-old Mr. Bilodeau was planning one of his regular visits with them later in the evening.
But Mr. Grant, who has been in custody since February on an unrelated charge and has at least three felony convictions on his record — drugs, burglary and weapons — may have just happened by the unlighted property that would have looked inviting, with a single light burning.
The suspect, whose scheduled arraignment today was postponed, is due to appear in court on Thursday, July 8.
