The family of a Hollywood man is demanding justice after their loved one was attacked by a dog, beaten and then stabbed to death in a wild group attack on the Walk of Fame last week.

Berry Le’Mar Henderson, 37, was attacked by a dog while waiting for a bus near the intersection of Hollywood Boulevard and Las Palmas Avenue around 3:30 p.m. on May 20, according to several of his relatives and a Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman.

Surveillance video captured at a nearby 7-Eleven and posted online by community activist Najee Ali shows Henderson running across Hollywood Boulevard, while the dog bites at his ankles. A group of men gives chase, according to the video, and one can be seen holding a weapon. The group then surrounds the victim on the other side of the street and can be seen punching and kicking him.

LAPD Officer Norma Eisenman, a department spokeswoman, said the victim suffered multiple stab wounds and was pronounced dead at a hospital a short time later. Police arrested three suspects that day: Bruce Lamont Fuller Jr., Isaul Hernandez and Robert Anthony Garcia, Eisenman said.

Anthony allegedly beat the victim and stuck him repeatedly with a “small bat,” Eisenman said. The dog’s owner, Patrick Randall Perry, was arrested on May 28, according to Eisenman, who said detectives believe Perry stabbed the victim.

A man by the same name was arrested in the same area in 2024 for getting into a fight outside a Church of Scientology building on the Walk of Fame, according to a report by NBC Los Angeles. Police said Perry is 55 years old. The man described in the 2024 news story was 52 at the time.

All four men were arrested on suspicion of murder and are being held in lieu of $2 million, Eisenman said. It was not immediately clear if a case had been presented to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.

Barry Henderson was killed in Hollywood on May 20, 2026.

(LaToya Payne)

Henderson, who lived in downtown L.A., was waiting for a bus when the deadly melee began, according to his loved ones.

“My cousin was not the aggressor, my cousin was just here. He was running away. He was down on the ground,” his cousin, Demeya Brewer, said during a vigil held in Hollywood on Friday afternoon, and later published on Facebook.

At least one local activist said he had expressed concern about Perry and his dog before. William Gude, better known online under the handle “Film The Police L.A.,” claimed Perry’s dog had bitten him in the past.

Gude also sent the Los Angeles Police Department video of a man he identified as Perry threatening someone with a collapsible baton in 2024. The man in the video can be seen holding a dog on a leash that looks similar to the one captured in the surveillance footage of Henderson’s killing.

Police officials wrote back to Gude in 2024 that an investigation had been opened. It was not immediately clear what happened to that investigation. Criminal court records do not show recent charges against Perry.

Relatives described Henderson as a happy-go-lucky man who “brought a smile” everywhere he went.

“He was someone who was loved by many family and friends. Anyone who knew Berry loved him. Everyone is just really devastated that it happened to Berry because he is one of those cool dudes. Berry don’t cause trouble,” said his sister, Latoya Payne. “It’s devastating … he was murdered. We just want justice for our brother.”

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For the study, the researchers used NASA’s MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution) spacecraft to analyze data obtained in December 2023 involving the solar wind interacting with the Martian ionosphere. A planet’s ionosphere is the region of the upper atmosphere comprised of positively charged ions and negatively charged electrons that is created from the solar radiation colliding with the planet’s upper atmosphere and breaking apart gas molecules, with their ions and electrons free to roam.

The Zwan-Wolf effect has been observed and studied to occur within Earth’s magnetic field for several years, as the effect causes the magnetic field to squeeze from the solar wind. However, this effect has never been observed on Mars since it lacks a magnetic field. Now, MAVEN successfully observed the Zwan-Wolf effect within the Martian ionosphere when a powerful solar storm struck the Martian atmosphere in December 2023. While the researchers hypothesized that the Zwan-Wolf effect could occur regularly on Mars, these regular occurrences are undetectable with current instruments, but this powerful solar storm produced a Zwan-Wolf effect strong enough for MAVEN to detect it.

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Along with using the Zwan-Wolf effect to learn more about the Martian atmosphere and how it interacts with the Sun and solar wind, this study could provide key insights into planets lacking a magnetic field. The only other planet in the solar system with an atmosphere and without a magnetic field is Venus, which lacks plate tectonics that prevents a magnetic field from forming. This prevents heat from circulating within Venus’ interior, also called convection, which is one of two characteristics required to produce a magnetic field. The other characteristic is a liquid iron core, which Venus possesses.

Launched in November 2013 and arriving at Mars in September 2014, the MAVEN spacecraft’s primary mission objective was to ascertain how Mars lost its atmosphere, whether currently or long ago when the atmosphere was much thicker than it is today. While MAVEN went silent for unknown reasons in December 2025, MAVEN confirmed a longstanding hypothesis that the Martian atmosphere was stripped away by the solar wind, resulting in the Red Planet losing its ability to maintain liquid water on its surface.

What new insights into the atmospheric effect on Mars will researchers make in the coming years and decades? Only time will tell, and this is why we science!

As always, keep doing science & keep looking up!