This is weird.

The missing cardiologist that Los Angeles police want to question in connection with Michael Jackson's death — the cardiologist was with Jackson when the star was stricken Thursday and who administered CPR until paramedics arrived, the cardiologist whose BMW has been impounded by police for investigation — that cardiologist...

He's from Houston. He operates a clinics in one of the city's poorist neighborhoods — Acres Homes.

Acres Homes, in north Houston, is an out-of-the-way community known to the rest of the city primarily for a couple of modest but locally famous barbeque joints and as home base for some of the city's rappers.

Dr. Conrad Murray's Acres Home Heart & Vascular Institute caters primarily to Acres Homes' elderly, according to the Houston Chronicle.

The BMW the police seized has Texas license plates registered to Murray's sister. On Friday, the police, reporters, neighborhood residents and local politicians were "holed up" outside the sister's house, hoping to gather information about Murray.

Murray had been Jackson's personal physician for the last three years, according to the Los Angeles Times. The Times calls Murray "the man tapped to assure the 50-year-old performer's health during thecomeback concert series that had been planned for next month in London."

Murray's Houston patients and people who knew him had no idea.


"No one knew he was Michael Jackson's doctor," a city councilman told the Chronicle. "Nobody. Everybody's shocked."

The reason everyone, including the police, were outside the sister's house is because she wouldn't open the door.

Residents inside the house "drew the drapes," the Chronicle said, "and refused to open the door, even for police who shouted from outside."

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