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Gabriel Ben Meir, Top MTV Production/Music Coordinator, Shot Dead on Sunday Morning in Quiet L.A. Neighborhood

Categories: Crime, Death

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NBC Los Angeles
30-year-old Gabe Ben Meir
Update: "Possible Suspect in MTV Murder Is 35-Year-Old Black Man With Wire Glasses, Gold Jewelry, Shotgun."

Update: Ben Meir was reportedly shot execution-style in the back of the head while walking from his car to his home just after midnight. Shocked responses from those who worked and lived near him, after the jump.

A rising creative force at MTV Los Angeles -- behind the music for "Parental Control" and "Dudesons in America," and post-production for "Punk'd" -- was murdered with a bullet to the face head at about 1 a.m. yesterday morning.

The Los Angeles Times reports that the body of 30-year-old Gabriel Ben Meir was discovered at 6:30 a.m. by a Picfair Village resident walking his dog on Packard Street between Stanley and Spaulding Avenues along Miracle Mile.

And strangely, despite the giant pool of blood Ben Meir was lying in, "authorities believe other passersby may have seen the body but failed to report it."

So far, there are no suspects, and the freak shooting is shrouded in mystery. The only clue is that a neighbor heard gunshots at 1 a.m.

Ben Meir's MTV production credits also include "From G's to Gents" and "World of Jenks." (Cruise his full resume -- impressively thick for such a young guy -- at the New York Times.)

KTLA reports that the young business professional had just moved to the upscale neighborhood -- a tight-knit, even cliquey, community. Last night's broadcast:

 

Did you know Gabriel, live in the area, or happen to witness the crime scene this morning? Please share below.

Update: The Hollywood Reporter has some more background on Ben Meir's passionate career climb.

He started in the industry as an intern at Geffen Records. His sister, Alexis Ben-Meir, is a well-known figure in the music business who has worked at MCA Records, Suretone Records and is currently at Red Light Management. Their father, Nick Ben-Meir, is a longtime business manager representing musicians. "He was so damn sweet," says a former coworker. "He just loved music. I remember him at Coachella wanting to see every band. He was a really hard worker and super passionate about music."

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MTV
Ben Meir's latest project
Update: Upon learning of Ben Meir's murder, MTV execs released a statement saying they were "shocked and saddened" by the "tragic death" of their employee, "who was a valued member of the MTV family and a beloved and dedicated colleague and friend."

One of Ben Meir's neighbors tells the Times that he "seemed like a very sweet guy," and that "this is so out of the norm for this neighborhood." Another echoes the sentiment: "Forty-seven years I live here, never before was there something like that."

Remembering Ben Meir, Weekly commenter Lyndz23 writes:

"Gabe was an amazing friend... we are in such shock and grief over this senseless tragedy. Our thoughts, love and prayers are with him and his family."

Originally posted at 8:30 a.m.

[@simone_electra/swilson@laweekly.com]

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•]•  gArtoonz.... •[•
•]• gArtoonz.... •[•

A couple of these responses serve as sad demonstration of the existence of the "comment troll" as modern day horse fly. Go sell your sour grapes and thoughtless, self aggrandizing drivel to somebody that's buying. I, personally, am not. Condolences to his family, friends and co-workers .....And as a final karmic irony, the murder suspect and the comment troll are forced to spend eternity together, in what can only be described as hell .....

Liljoker806
Liljoker806

ok no disrespect but who cares on the video if that lady was blog captain or block captain or what ever this is about a murder of a good guy.....damn she'd do anything for fame......but its pointless....

Mike
Mike

Sorry but that area is a crap area where the fake RE market made instant millionaires out of those that can barely get by and very soon they will all be humbled again, 

1st hint, bars on windows, why he did not stay in the wilshire cooridor is beyond me, yes pricey, around 3k a month to start but SAFE !!, security, doormen, cameras everywhere, esp if you have a bmw, ferrari, corvette, you can't skimp on the rent in LA, I know many that have been jacked down there in the past,  the real safe areas in LA areSunset plaza, Beverly Hills, Bel Air, Wilshire Cooridor area, Westwood and Brentwood, Pacific Palisades, Santa Monica, Malibubtw the reality shows is what kept mtv alive, so they were a great idea, 

matt gordon
matt gordon

It's certainly plausible that nobody was out walking at that particular spot between midnight and 6:30am. Depending upon how well lit that driveway/sidewalk is at night, even someone driving past might not have seen the victim. However, a shotgun blast or two should have resulted in at least some curiousity. RIP, Gabe.

Private
Private

Oh MTV. We desperately need another Jew to entrance us that all races are "equal". Tell us your sour genocidal lies. Smother our nation with Jewish demands that we of the well-behaved, well educated, genetically saner, and genetically productive races that we must continue to accept more and more failures (passing their genetic mental dysfunctions and insubstantial morality) while nations like Israel declare their nation to be a "white Jew *ONLY* nation. We must continue to comply with Jewish demands or be assaulted with *words* and anti-scientific lawsuits to comply with autogenocidal submission when 30 or more blacks commit "swarm robberies" or "swarm homicides" or gang rape children *regularly* or having "black flash mobs" ruin Main Streets across the nation or regularly assault + murder + rape whites while the Jewish-controlled media outlets disgustingly coverup the races of the "black on white" racial crimes.

Because we all are "equal" in genetic value (despite all science to contrary) and "moral cultures" (despite African cannibalism and African child-rape being common until 1953 in the Congo and very common these days in African nations under Charles Taylor and Thomas Lubanga and Rafiki Saba Amiable and an disgusting psychopath cannibal army calling themselves "The Army of God". Yep, all "equally moral" because all lies in the face of the obvious truth are "equally moral". Jews say the WACKIEST things these past few thousands of years.

Based on the 2006 TOTAL population of each race in the United States population is on welfare: 39% white 11,661,000 of 29,900,000 recipients38% black 11,362,000 of 29,900,00017% Hispanic 5,083,000 of 29,900,000

White total population 237,854,954Black total population 37,909,341Hispanic total population 42,687,224

Welfare usage as percent of racial population:

White = 4.9% = 11,661,000 / 237,854,954Black = 29.97% = 11,362,000 / 37,909,341Hispanic = 11.9% = 5,083,000 / 42,687,224

Swarm robberyhttp://www.liveleak.com/view?i...

Private
Private

Oh no! Another media-dominating Jew is dead. However shall we white people be programmed to non-violently comply with a racial invasion of ethnic-cleansing genocide from Mexico, Iraq, Sudan, Somalia, Israel, China, India, Vietnam, Cuba, the Philippines, El Salvador. and the Dominican Republic. However shall we white people be terrorized into passive compliance with baseless occult accusations of "racist" or "anti-Semite" merely because we do not want our great nation to be flooded to death with the worst failures of the worst aspects of those nations (passed on from parent to child to their future children thusly an unbroken burden of expensive generational failure after generational failure).

Please promptly replace this dead Jew with another Jew singing the glories of "you must accept everyone as equal and every culture as equal" because when a Muslim Somali immigrant is stifled from expressing his "culture" of woman enslavement and child-rape and beheading all that "offendi" then we simply must be "racist" rather than, oh I wonder, "NOT INSANE".

We simply need a new Jew to promptly explain that although genetic criminality is quite well proven to be statistically prominent and even though the white people have certain positive traits toward civilization and humanity, that they are magically "equal" just because the Jews claim this (with zero scientific proof of these claims despite demanding these delusions to be enshrined into law).

Whites are equal to blacks and are equal to Japanese and are equal to Hispanics.

Except when that is easily proven to be obscenely untrue.

Criminality Rate By Race = (Numerical Quantity of Race in Prison for a given year) / (Numerical Quantity of that Race for the same year)

USA White population 0.31% criminality rate.

USA Black population 2.48% criminality rate.

USA Hispanic/Latino 22.3% criminality rate. 12,933,946 / 58,000,000 = 0.2229 *100 = 22.3%

Hispanics in prison 2007 USDOJ numbers = 433,946. Total USA Hispanic/Latino population *legal = 45,500,000 + *illegal 12,500,000 = 58,000,000. Hispanic prisoners + illegal-resident USA Hispanics = 12,933,946Now let's say (in the realm of fantasy) that somehow illegal Hispanics in the USA are not criminals. Ignoring the illegals (criminals) gives you this criminality percent by race.

433,946 / 45,500,000 = 0.009537 * 100 = 0.9537% criminality rate (ignoring the illegals criminally residing in the USA).

Japanese prison population (in Japan 2009) = 75,250.Total Japan population = 127,076,18375,250 / 127,076,183 = 0.000592 * 100 = 0.0592% criminality rate.Whites (criminality rate varies greatly per nations) = USA White population 229,800,000 (2008). Whites in prison (2008) = 712,500 = 0.31% White population criminality rate.You cannot judge all dogs by breed alone, but genetics *DO MATTER*.Note that this reflects on IQ and national prosperity too.

•]• gArtoonz.... •[•
•]• gArtoonz.... •[•

Not only are you full of pointless minutia, you OBVIOUSLY have WAY to much time on your hands. I'll venture a guess here, you are unemployable because you don't get along and play well with others. You are a sad excuse for a human being and other than the fact you can read and write, you haven't evolved past the microbial sludge stage of scum living under rocks. You ? are what's wrong with the world today ....

Isle
Isle

Hi. Verrrrrry INterrrresting

guest
guest

I guess this means the Japanese are the superior race, since they have the lowest criminality rate.  Maybe you didn't notice that 0.31 > 0.0592.  That must change your whole outlook on things, I'm sure.

DJAkeeba
DJAkeeba

Really, LA Weekly? Funny how when you interview people in Watts and Compton, ebonics always gets corrected into standard English. But for this neighbor in the late Mr. Ben Meir's neighborhood, we get "Forty-seven years I live here, never before was there something like that." Hmmm... what are you trying to say?

Animefreakgal
Animefreakgal

This world will never be the same without him

obbop
obbop

Wearing wrong color garment?

Inadvertently displayed a gang sign?

Unknowingly showed disrespect in some manner and interpreted by a gang banger as being disrespectful?

Diversity is our strength.

All cultures and sub-cultures are equally beautiful.

Doris_DayTheEarthStoodStill
Doris_DayTheEarthStoodStill

Wow. This is one poorly written article. First you say he was shot in the back in the head... Then you say he was shot in the face.

And don't get me started on the high school newspaper-level of redundancy.

"And strangely, despite the giant pool of blood Ben Meir was lying in, "authorities believe other passersby may have seen the body but failed to report it despite a substantial amount of blood at the scene."Seriously? For real?

Doris_DayTheEarthStoodStill
Doris_DayTheEarthStoodStill

And for some reason the formatting on these comments is automatically s****y. Rad.

Simone Wilson
Simone Wilson

Reports initially said he was shot in the face. But I updated. Thanks =)

Hayleybob
Hayleybob

JME is apparently a trogolodyte. He doesn't even understand what freedom of speech is - it's to protect you from -government- censorship, idiot. On a privately owned website, you gotta go by the agreed terms and conditions. Freedom of speech isn't freedom from criticism either lol, so suck it up and take responsibility for your bigotry.

jme
jme

hey why dont you Stop violating peoples peoples free speech and opinion by flagging their comments .. I thought you dems lost the debate on free speech even if it hurts your feelings? dont like what I say?? Tough Shit!! move to the woods in the midle of nowhere then! c'mon Simone! dont play like your racist colleague gustavo arellano now. by flagging what hurts some jew or illegals feelings.Im sure you dont wanna lowere yourself to that level now do you?

Eric Jacobson
Eric Jacobson

If he was so passionate about music, what was he doing producing crap reality TV for a channel that has nothing to do with Music anymore?

Lifeslovers
Lifeslovers

Just because he was working for mtv doesnt mean he wasnt passionate about music and if you would watch mtv then you would know that they play music all morning during the week and let me just say you need to grow up and respect this young mans family and friends....I have no idea who he is but i have to say that this was a HORRIBLE thing to happen to someone so young god bless your family and friends and god be with you eric i think you need him....

Luh
Luh

The dude's been murdered and this is all you can think to say. Wow yeah, the human race is screeeewwwwed.

Jmmgtz
Jmmgtz

He probably owed someone a looooot of drug money.

a friend
a friend

Gabe was a gentle, sweet, devoted friend. I hope that someone comes forward with information to bring justice to his family for this senseless act of violence.

Greg Loftis/Malpais
Greg Loftis/Malpais

This is so senseless. He got our song on MTV's The Hard Times of RJ Berger tonight... I owe him a lot....I hope you get to your real home safely tonight, Gabriel. We are praying for your family, friends, co-workers and everyone who's lives you touched. With gratitude and sorrow we send our love.... Greg L/ Malpais

Lyndz23
Lyndz23

Gabe was an amazing friend... we are in such shock and grief over this senseless tragedy. Our thoughts, love and prayers are with him and his family.

jme
jme

was he jew? if so, Good riddence Dickhead.. maybee in the next Life he can maybee make better shows and produce something positive and not crappy shows that exploit American Youth.. oh by the way ''geez to gents'' ? geez as in street gangstas? street geez who carry guns and shoot innocent people in the face and now this dead jew says lets turn them around and show theirgood gents.. now this Dead dirtbag can feel what a bullet to the face feels like.. good Bye kosher clown

Cheesyface
Cheesyface

You are a fucking scumbag. A mother just lost her son on Mother's Day. Do you not think the family reads these things? He was an incredible person and you'd be lucky to be half the man he was.

jme
jme

half the man he was?? we are talking about a sleazy jew right? cicimsized penis is something I dont wish to have.. so go drop dead like your buddy'' meir'' here.

jme
jme

Not to sound like a cold blooded S.O.B. but when you produce crap to the young public, especially shows that have a negative effect on the young peoples mind and exploit American urban culture, you deserve a bullet to the face especially in the urban part of the city.. the same kind of environment this clown promoted to our young that street life is acceptable.. his last name was ''meir'' How come Im not suprised.. seems like jews are always producing shitty shows. anyway, I hope you didnt die right away meir.. I hope you felt every broken broken fragment in your face before you expired..No sorrow for a dirty jew who produces garbage..Bring back the videos MTV, instead of letting dirty jews and half brained blacks run your agenda.. I though MTV was based in the NYC?? I thought newyorkers where suppose to be tough and take no bull shit?? appaently thats just a myth

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