Monday, August 29, 2011

Alberd Tersargsyan: Suspect Indicted in Quadruple Hollywood Homicide

Hollywood SignImage via WikipediaFYI.  I have been following this murder case since the FIRST night it took place.  I hope that JUSTICE is DONE in this horrific crime.  Thanks to the Los Angeles District Attorney Alan Jackson and Amy Ashvanian for overseeing the prosecution in this case!   Keep you posted!


en: Grauman's Chinese Theatre, photographed by...Image via WikipediaLOS ANGELES – A superceding Grand Jury indictment unsealed today charges Alberd Tersargsyan with the murders of three family members and a woman not related to the family, the District Attorney’s office announced.

Tersargsyan, 65 (7-7-46), pleaded not guilty before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge George Lomeli in case BA 382886. Tersargsyan, who was ordered held without bail, returns to court on Oct. 17 for a pretrial hearing in Department 100, said Deputy District Attorneys Alan Jackson and Amy Ashvanian.
The four-count murder indictment was returned Aug. 26 by the Grand Jury. It charges Tersargsyan with the March 26, 2010, murder of Karine Hokobyan. The 38-year-old victim had just returned home about 8 p.m. and parked her car near her apartment on Lexington Avenue in Hollywood when she was fatally shot while still in her car.

The indictment also charges Tersargsyan him with the murders of Hokobyan’s 43-year-old husband, Khachik Safaryan, and the couple’s 8-year-old daughter, Lusine Safaryan. Their bodies were discovered fatally shot in the family’s Hollywood apartment on Dec. 11, 2008.

The indictment also charges Tersargsyan with the sniper-style shooting of Julie Kates on 

Crawford's widow built Crossroads of the World...Image via WikipediaMarch 11, 2010, on Sunset Boulevard. She allegedly was murdered because the defendant thought the woman acquaintance stole a DVD from him.

The indictment alleges the special circumstances of lying in wait, multiple murders and murder of a witness, Lusine Safaryan. Prosecutors will decide later whether to seek the death penalty. Tersargsyan, who was initially thought to be in his 70s, was first charged in April 2010 with Hokobyan’s murder. That case, which was later amended, will be dismissed.

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