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Star's wife killed
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ACTOR Robert Blake returned home on Sunday from a brief hospital stay while police searched for the gunman who killed his wife as she sat in their car.
Blake, 67, who had left his wife in the car while he went back to a restaurant to pick up his own handgun, entered the hospital on Saturday to be treated for high blood pressure.
Blake's wife, identified by the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office as Bonny Lee Bakley, 45, was shot late on Friday as she sat in a car near an Italian restaurant that Blake frequented in Studio City.
Police searched Blake's house on Saturday and recovered two 9mm handguns and seized phone records and other paperwork, Braun said. Police had interviewed Blake twice - once for about three hours immediately after the shooting and again for an hour on Saturday.
Bakley was shot once in the head while her husband returned to the restaurant to retrieve a handgun he had left behind. Blake had been carrying the gun because his wife feared for her life. Bakley had been on probation after being convicted in her home state of Arkansas of carrying a fake ID.
They married after DNA tests confirmed that her 11-month-old daughter, Rose Lenore Sophia, was fathered by Blake. The girl was originally named Christian Shannon Brando because Bakley believed the father was Christian Brando, the son of actor Marlon Brando.
Blake began his acting career at age five, appearing in MGM's Our Gang series. He is best known for his Emmy-winning role as detective Tony Baretta in television's 1970s Baretta.
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