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Amid New Revelations, Alex Odeh's Assassination Remains Unsolved
On the morning of Oct. 11, 1985, Santa Ana police officer Hugh Mooney received an urgent call from the department’s watch commander about a bombing. Around 9 a.m., a thunderous blast demolished the second-story of an office building on 17th Street and left one man, Alex Odeh, critically injured.
Mooney sent homicide investigators over to Western Medical Center in Santa Ana where doctors desperately tried to save Odeh’s life.
“The information I had was that he had a traumatic amputation of one of his legs,” said Mooney, who hasn’t spoken publicly about that day until now. “It didn’t look good for him. I wanted to get a dying declaration if one was available.”
But Odeh, a Palestinian American activist, never regained consciousness and died two hours after a rigged pipe bomb detonated when he opened the door to the Santa Ana office of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee.
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