Gil Hill
Age: 84
Summary: former police detective and city councilman who played a police inspector in three Beverly Hills Cop
films and spent 30 years with the Detroit Police Department and about a
dozen years on the Detroit City Council, who was one of five veteran
homicide detectives from police departments around the country chosen
to help investigate the murders of 11 black children and the
disappearance of four others in Atlanta, Georgia in 1980 until the
investigation ended in 1982 with the conviction of Wayne Williams in
two of the murders, and who was head of the Detroit Police
Department's homicide division when he landed a role in the 1984
action-comedy Beverly Hills Cop as Eddie Murphy's boss Inspector Douglas Todd.
Cause of Death: Pneumonia
Born: November 5, 1931
Died: February 29, 2016
Location: Detroit, Michigan
