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The investigation into the killing of Steven John Simmons, a 33-year-old Running Springs man, and his missing step-brother Jacob Anthonisen took a twist recently.
First, Mr. Simmons’ killing may not be murder, and second, his shooting probably happened in Orange County.
Mr. Simmons’ badly decomposed body was discovered on Saturday, June 9, near Willoughby Avenue and North Genesee Avenue in the Fairfax district across the street from West Hollywood.
The body was so badly decomposed that the coroner’s office found it difficult to identify the remains at first, indicating that the corpse had been wrapped in the blanket in the back of the Cadillac SUV in which it was found for some time.
Coroner’s records showed that the victim died from a gunshot wound to the chest.
Subsequent investigation by LAPD Homicide detectives discovered that the SUV belonged to Jacob Anthonisen, Mr. Simmons’ stepbrother.
Mr. Anthonisen had last been heard from over a week before the discovery of the corpse.
Steven John Simmons was last known to have lived in Running Springs, a small community next to Big Bear.
Mr. Anthonisen was a Hollywood/West Hollywood denizen who owned the Peanut Gallery, an art gallery with a presence in Los Angeles and New York.
Mr. Anthonisen presented himself on Facebook and Twitter as a man about town posting Instagram photos of Lindsay Lohan and pop artist Mickey Avalon and, in another picture, with Mike Tyson.
Many details emerged after journalists took a look into Mr. Anthonisen’s and Mr. Simmons’ past, including both having been ex-cons.
Jacob Anthonisen served time in an Arizona penitentiary for possession of a half-pound of marijuana, gaining release in 2005.
Later that same year, in November, 2007, his step-brother, Steven John Simmons, robbed a Nevada bank using a pistol and was sentenced in 2007 to a 16-year prison term.
He was displeased with the sentence, and appealed the sentencing to the Nevada Supreme Court, where he lost.
He was eligible for parole after serving 60 months of that sentence, so with time off for good behavior and time served, he was released in late 2010 says the Nevada State Department of Corrections’ web site.
At the time of his arrest for bank robbery, Mr. Simmons was making a living as a snowboarder in a snow park in Mammoth Lakes, California.
In June, several weeks after the corpse was discovered and Mr. Anthonisen went missing, the LAPD was searching for the step-brother as a person of interest and because the family feared for his safety.
“We’re looking for him to make sure he’s all right,” Los Angeles Police Department Robbery-Homicide Detective Frank Carrillo at the time.
However, LAPD is no longer carrying on that search.
Detective Carrillo told WeHo News this week that the case had been “turned over to another law enforcement agency in Orange County.”
He said that, because the investigation “turned up ties to Costa Mesa, LAPD began to share info with that police force.”
Subsequently, those “ties” became strong enough for Costa Mesa Police Department Homicide detectives to take over.
The ties? “We came to believe as part of our investigation that the killing took place in Costa Mesa,” said Detective Carrillo.
Apparently, Mr. Simmons was shot in the Orange County city and his body transported to the border of West Hollywood and Los Angeles.
Det. Carrillo would not say how much time elapsed between the killing and the transportation of the victim’s body, nor did he have any updates from Costa Mesa PD.
Calls and E mails to the detective in charge of the investigation were not returned before publication.
In the LA Times article about the homicide, Mr. Simmons’ mother, Candace Simmons, made note of the Costa Mesa connection with these thoughts.
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“Someone who posted on line [that] they were going to be out of town for weekend and was a friend of Steven Simmons’ missing step-brother [Jacob Anthonisen]. “Then was posted at later date they didn’t go out of town, but awoke to someone in his house and he shot them in the chest but they got away. “The man was said to live in Costa Mesa and made a 911 call to report it. “Some think it might of been my son, [as] someone had to be with him because [I] can’t see anyone being able to drive from Costa Mesa to WeHo after being shot.” |
WeHo News could find no record of a 911 call involving a shot intruder for the week before the body’s discovery.
The Costa Mesa PD public information officer could supply no additional details.
No one knows where Mr. Anthonisen may be or whether he remains alive.
Steven Simmons is survived by his mom and step-dad, Candace Simmons and Richard Novison; his dad and step-mom, Steve and Diane Atkin; 4 sisters, Tanya, Natasha, Angela, Melissa; 2 step brothers Jason, and Jacob; 2 step sisters Jamie, and Jackie; 5 aunts, Angela, Michele, Kimberly, Paula, and Julie; Uncle Greg, aunt Dana; 1 nephew, Sage; 1 niece, Hannah; several cousins on both sides of the family.
His step-brother Jason put together a memorial video of Mr. Simmons’ life, which can be seen below.
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