Hollywood actor and Marvel star Frank Grillo went off on Los Angeles’s rampant and rising crime after his boxing trainer was shot dead in the street last week.
Grillo, 57, grieved for the loss of Azuma Bennett following his shooting outside a legal marijuana dispensary, according to a report
Bennett served as Grillo’s personal boxing coach, and the actor said he does not recognize the increasingly crime-ridden city of Los Angeles anymore.
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Bennett “made everybody feel good about training,” Grillo said. “I don’t know what’s happened to Los Angeles that a beautiful guy like this gets shot and killed over nothing.”
The 30-year-old trainer was shot roughly eight times, the report noted.
Authorities and emergency officials tried to save him, but Bennett died on his way to a nearby hospital, authorities said. The motive is unknown, and a suspect has not been identified.
“Azuma was our family. One of the best of the best. We are all so broken,” Fortune Gym, where the late trainer worked, said in a statement.
A GoFundMe has been set up to send Bennett’s body back to his home country of Australia.
“Azuma was one of a kind. An outstanding athlete, fighter, teacher trainer, and friend/mate to so many,” gym owner Tamara Fortune wrote in the description. “We lost one of the best ones out there.”
“He did not deserve this … He was kind to all that he met and always engaged everyone in the gym with his positive energy and engaging personality,” she continued.
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Homicides in Los Angeles are at their highest level in 15 years, the report noted.
