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
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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