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Who was Steven Parent and why was he at 10050 Cielo Drive?

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Charles Manson Cult leader Charles Manson being transported to a courthouse in Independence, California, 1969.

Steven Parent was an 18-year-old who became an unintended victim of the Manson Family during the night of the Tate murders on August 8, 1969.1

He was at the estate at 10050 Cielo Drive because he had been visiting the property's caretaker, who lived in the guest house. As the cult members arrived at the residence to carry out Charles Manson's orders to kill everyone inside, they encountered Parent in his car in the driveway. He was fatally shot by Charles "Tex" Watson before the group proceeded to break into the main house to murder Sharon Tate and the other occupants.1