Palisades Highlands Shooter Identified

Zvi Howard Strolicht, 71, was found fatally shot at 1476 Paseo de Oro about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, according to Los Angeles police and the county the coroner's office.

The wounded caregiver, a woman whose name was withheld, was airlifted to a hospital in critical condition. As of Wednesday, July 24, the woman's condition was upgraded to stable, according to LAPD.

Neighbors told reporters at the scene the man had a stroke about six months ago.

Aidan Fite, who lives nearby, told NBC4 he heard the gunfire.

"My window was open when I was sleeping and I heard four gunshots," Fite said. "So I went out of my room, went downstairs. I saw ... my next-door neighbor sideways on the street with a gun in his hand, dead. And about 20 minutes later, ambulances came ... and his nanny or housekeeper, one of the two, came out of his house -- had to have been shot two to three times. She went to the hospital."

Neighbors said Strolicht had lived in the secluded hilltop neighborhood for about 15 years and owned several guns, some of which were taken away after he had a stroke.

The housing development, surrounded by Topanga State Park and accessible by only one road off Sunset Boulevard, was started in the 1970s and is now nearly built out. Celebrities such as Chevy Chase, James Worthy and Steve Guttenberg have had homes there.