Longtime KTLA reporter Warren Wilson announced his retirement yesterday, after 21 years at the station.
Wilson, of course, is best known as the go-to guy for suspects on the lam who want to turn themselves in -- but don't want to risk being shot up in the process.
According to KTLA, Wilson brokered the surrender of 22 wanted fugitives through the years. He also is known for interviewing Rodney King just days after his beating, and covering the 1992 L.A. riots, the O.J. Simpson trial and the violent 1997 North Hollywood bank robbery.
Notes the station: Wilson joined KTLA in September of 1984 as a part-time field reporter for the station's evening news. His journalism career actually began 50 years ago when he was a staff correspondent in the United States Navy, followed by positions with City News Service, United Press International KABC-AM and KFWB-AM. Just prior to KTLA he was with KNBC and NBC television for 15 years.
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