Authorities Identify 78-Year-Old William Hasley After Fatal Runyon Canyon Medical Emergency
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Updated · Los Angeles Times · Jun 9
Authorities Identify 78-Year-Old William Hasley After Fatal Runyon Canyon Medical Emergency
3 articles · Updated · Los Angeles Times · Jun 9
Summary
William Hasley, 78, was identified by the L.A. County medical examiner as the hiker who died after suffering a medical emergency in Runyon Canyon on Saturday evening.
More than two dozen Los Angeles Fire Department personnel responded near Nichols Canyon Road shortly before 7 p.m., using a helicopter so paramedics could reach him, but he was pronounced dead soon after.
The medical examiner had not yet determined a cause of death.
Hasley was a veteran Hollywood screenwriter and UCLA Extension instructor whose credits included 37 episodes of “The Smurfs,” along with work on “Murder, She Wrote,” “Highway to Heaven” and other TV series.
He was also a friend of Caitlyn Jenner and helped write Jenner’s motivational book “Finding the Champion Within,” adding to a career that spanned television, ghostwriting and teaching.