Man in Fatal Rampage Reportedly Took LSD

A man who went on a bizarre rampage through a Reseda neighborhood and was shot to death after crashing through a window of a house had taken LSD earlier that evening, his friends told Los Angeles police Monday.

Police said they will not be able to confirm whether Gene Brian Holloway, 23, took the drug until autopsy and toxicological tests are completed in about six weeks.

Holloway was shot to death about 10:30 p.m. Friday by James E. Bruner, 38, after he crashed naked and bloody through a plate glass window into Bruner’s home and then pursued his wife, Elizabeth, through the house. Holloway, who lived about a mile away, had crashed through or broken windows at three other houses in the neighborhood before reaching the Bruners’ home in the 6800 block of Andosal Avenue.

Detectives on Monday interviewed three of Holloway’s friends with whom he had spent time on Friday night who told them Holloway said he had taken LSD.