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NAME: US KILLING 20090801I TAPE: EF09/0733 IN_TIME: 10:08:32:19 DURATION: 00:02:05:21 SOURCES: ABC/AP TELEVISION/AP PHOTOS DATELINE: New York - 30, 31 July 2009 RESTRICTIONS: See Shotlist SHOTLIST: ABC - No Access North America/Internet New York - 30 July 2009 ++NIGHT SHOTS++ 1. Mid of police van (++mute++) 2. Close of police officer walking into lobby (++mute++) 3. Wide of apartment building (++mute++) 4. Wide of lobby entrance (++mute++) 5. Mid of investigator carrying bag (++mute++) 6. Mid of sign (++mute++) 7. Mid of investigators (++mute++) AP PHOTOS - No Access Canada/For Broadcast use only - Strictly No Access Online or Mobile Location and date unknown 8. STILL showing victim, 89-year-old Holocaust survivor Guido Felix Brinkmann AP TELEVISION New York - 31 July 2009 ++DAY SHOT++ 9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Edward Mullen, Inspector, New York City Police: "Mr Brinkmann was found in, face down, in his bedroom, suffering some blunt trauma to the head." ++INTERIOR SHOTS++ 10. Wide of Bo Dietl, longtime friend of Mr Brinkmann, in his office 11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bo Dietl, longtime friend of Brinkmann: "He would tell me the story of how it went when he was on line four different times to be exterminated in Auschwitz. He was pulled off the line four times when he was on the death line. And the reason why was he was an electrician. He worked for Siemens Electrical in Germany when he was a young man at 18 years of age, and they utilised him to help with the lights I guess around the concentration camp and all that. So his life was spared." 12. Close Dietl looking at photographs of himself and Mr Brinkmann, pan up to Dietl AP PHOTOS - No Access Canada/For Broadcast use only - Strictly No Access Online or Mobile Location and date unknown 13. BLACK AND WHITE STILL showing Mr Brinkmann AP TELEVISION New York - 31 July 2009 ++INTERIOR SHOT++ 14. SOUNDBITE: (English) Bo Dietl, longtime friend of Mr Brinkman: "And I could see Felix seeing, looking in their faces, tied up, possibly spitting in their faces saying, 'I've seen tens of thousands of people die in front of my eyes, you're not going to intimidate me.' And he probably died because of his strength, of his convictions, of who he was and what he's seen in his life. And these two punks were not going to destroy his life and take his money." AP PHOTOS - No Access Canada/For Broadcast use only - Strictly No Access Online or Mobile Location and date unknown 15. STILL showing victim Guido Felix Brinkmann STORYLINE: An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor was beaten and choked to death with his arms bound in his Upper East Side apartment in New York. Guido Felix Brinkmann was found with his facedown in his bed under a sheet on Thursday evening by the superintendent of the building at East 65th Street, police said. He had a head injury and his arms were tied behind his back, police inspector Edward Mullen said on Friday. Closet doors were opened and his apartment was messy, but there were no signs of forced entry. On Friday, investigators were looking for two people who were at his home and later drove away in his car. The building doorman told police that a man and a woman in their 20s came to Mr Brinkmann's apartment about 11:15 p.m. (03:15 GMT) the night before he was found dead. They were later seen by witnesses leaving through the basement garage, driving away in his car. The medical examiner said the cause of death was compression to the neck and ruled it a homicide. Brinkmann's body was discovered after his friend Bo Dietl, a high profile former NYPD detective-turned-private-eye, called 911. Dietl was contacted after Brinkmann, who had been working as a building manager in the Bronx, did not show up for work. Speaking in his office on Friday, Dietl spoke warmly of his friend who had survived the concentration camp at Auschwitz. The two met in 1971 when Brinkmann owned the nightclub Adam's Apple and have been friends for more than 30 years. Brinkmann was the godfather of Dietl's sons. Dietl said on Friday he had been worried Brinkmann was a robbery target because he carried a lot of cash. Dietl spoke of his friend telling stories of his childhood, growing up in Latvia and moving to Germany. His family was sent to concentration camps because his mother was Jewish. At Auschwitz, he had been slated to die several times, but each time was spared and eventually met his wife at the camp. Dietl said Brinkmann thought it was because of his skills as an electrician. "They utilised him to help with the lights I guess around the concentration camp and all that. So his life was spared." Brinkmann's wife died a few years ago, and is survived by his son, who was flying to New York from Portland, Ore., on Friday morning, Dietl said.