ANNE MCDERMOTT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Flowers were left at the apartment house where actress Rebecca Schaeffer was gunned down Tuesday morning. Police say the young star of TV's "My Sister Sam" may have been killed by a disturbed fan.</s>MCDERMOTT: Very sad story. A young girl -- Well, she was a woman, but she was only 21 years old, and just beginning a career that a lot of people thought was just going to take her so far, and to be killed like that so senselessly.</s>MCDERMOTT: Before the shooting, some neighbors reported seeing a suspicious man hanging around the area. And this woman said she saw a man showing a photograph of the actress.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He pulled up a picture about this big of a woman out of this envelope. It was packed with stuff. Now I assume that's where the gun was.</s>MCDERMOTT: She has just made a couple of movies, and was starting to get talked about in Hollywood, was starting to get known, and she was considered a fresh young face, and then it all ended. One of the interesting things about it is, later, when her killer went on trial, he was convicted of course, the prosecutor was a woman who wasn't very well known then, she became very well known later, Marcia Clark, who prosecuted O.J. Simpson in his criminal trial.
CNN 20: Rebecca Schaeffer is Killed, July 18, 1989