Hollywood Baffled By Property Tycoon Shooting

Detectives in Los Angeles say they have no idea why a millionaire property tycoon was shot and injured as he sat in his Rolls-Royce in Hollywood.

Friends of Kameron Segal told Sky News the 48-year-old was born in England and has a four-year-old son living in the UK.

They say family members have now arrived in LA to be at the tycoon's bedside - but admit they are baffled by the shooting.

Detectives are searching for a black man who arrived and fled the scene on a "10-speed or racing" bicycle.

Mr Segal was shot twice in the neck as he sat in the driver's seat of his two-tone Rolls-Royce in a car park behind the offices of his firm, Williams Holdings, on Sunset Boulevard.

One witness told the Los Angeles Times that he saw a "stark naked" man get out of the car and walk to an ambulance, heavily bandaged.

Mr Segal is said to be a stable condition in Cedars-Sinai Hospital.

Mytchell Mora, who has been a friend of Mr Segal for six years, told Sky News: "He is a caring, giving humanitarian and he did not deserve to be shot like a rabid dog.

"He is the sort of person who would give the shirt off his back for a stranger."

Mr Mora said Mr Segal had always talked of his "humble" beginnings in England and how he wanted to give back to the community in the US that had made him successful.

"It was a real rags-to-riches (story)," he said. "He always got very emotional on the Fourth of July."

Mr Segal made news in Los Angeles when he donated apartments rent-free to a homeless woman in Hollywood and a mother who was living in a shelter while her daughter was undergoing hospital treatment.

It has been reported that he was on his way to seal a $5m (£3.3m) property purchase in Los Angeles when the shooting happened on Friday night.

Mr Mora said: "I am going to do everything I can to find the animal who did this and bring him to justice."

Asked about a motive for the crime, a spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department told Sky News: "We have nothing to add to what is out there. The investigation is ongoing."

In November 2010, the high-profile Hollywood publicist Ronni Chasen was shot and killed in Beverly Hills as she drove home from a movie premiere.

Her assailant was said to have been riding a bicycle and police believe it was a robbery that went wrong.

The suspected gunman later committed suicide.