Homicide

DOWNTOWN — Detectives are looking for a 35-year-old Glendale woman whose 5-month-old son’s death from blunt-force trauma to his head was recently ruled a homicide. Glendale police officials on Thursday said homicide detectives have tried contacting Fereshteh Eghtedari for more than a month, but she disappeared sometime after the Nov. 16 car crash at Gardena Avenue and Tyburn Street. “We are still investigating it, but I think she fled,” Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said.

Human bones were discovered in Angeles National Forest and are now under investigation with Los Angeles County Sheriff homicide division. Bow hunters discovered the skull on Dec. 29 near mile marker 2.23 on Mt. Wilson Road, according to Lt. Gil Carrillo. ?The following day we found more human remains,? Carrillo said. ?It is being [handled] by homicide because there appears to be a bullet hole in the skull.? The bones are now with anthropologists who will help determine sex and approximate age. ?

An apparent suicide victim was found in her vehicle parked at the corner of Pine Cone Road and Pinelawn Drive in La Crescenta on Saturday afternoon. According to Los Angeles County homicide detective Traci Gonzales, a resident in the neighborhood notified Crescenta Valley Sheriff?s Station of the incident. Deputies discovered the apparent suicide victim in her vehicle. The woman was in her mid-40s and not a resident of the area. Her name is being withheld pending notification of the family.

Jackson Bell A Glendale teenager, who faces attempted-murder charges for allegedly shooting a North Hollywood man in the face and neck Saturday, will be tried as an adult, authorities said. The arraignment for Glendale 17-year-old Gayk Gzoyan and his father, Torgom Gzoyan, 55, was postponed Wednesday. The father and son are accused of trying to kill 27-year-old Aram Aslanian Saturday afternoon near the corner of Glendale Avenue and Maple Street. They are scheduled to reappear March 4 in Burbank Superior Court, authorities said.

Detectives are investigating the badly burned body of an unidentified adult male that was found Monday morning in a unisex restroom in the Colby Canyon Campground in the Angeles National Forest. "It's the first murder I've picked up out of there and we believe it's an isolated incident. We do not believe there is a serial killer or any predators out there," said Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Homicide Bureau Lt. Dan Rosenberg. The campground was closed Monday due to investigations but was re-opened to the public Tuesday.

Detective Robert Harris of the Los Angeles County Sheriff?s Department shared experiences from his more than 28-year career with volunteers at the Crescenta Valley Sheriff?s Station on Sept. 17. For the last eight years, Harris has served as a homicide detective. He explained that the homicide division is called on whether a case involves suicide, accidental death or murder. He said that although there are not many murders in the Crescenta Valley area, it is still important to understand the procedures in a homicide investigation.

According to police statistics for 2004 part one crimes, which includes vandalism and homicide, Glendale has ranked in the top 10 safest cotoes in two categories. "To be in the top ten is to be our goal and we feel it is an important mile stone to maintain," Assistant Chief of Police Ron de Pompa said. Glendale ranked in at No. 1 for the top 10 safest cities with a population of 2 million people. Crimes the city is ranked safe of are part one crimes which include -- homicide, rape, robbery, aggravated assault, burglary, auto theft, grand theft, auto burglary and arson.

The Glendale Police Department began the first half of the decade with two homicide investigations they believe were linked. In 1950, the badly beaten body of an 84-year-old woman was found in her home on Monterey Road. The primary suspect in the case was an 80-year-old man who was also reported missing at the same time. The whereabouts of the man - who lived three blocks away and was an old friend of the victim - was not known for years. The case took an even stranger twist when in 1954, the man's remains were found in Dead Horse Canyon.

Darleene Barrientos The shooting death of an 18-year-old Glendale man marks the sixth homicide in Glendale this year. Edvin Isagulyan, 18, was shot in the head about 7 p.m. Monday after an apparent argument with another man, Los Angeles County Coroner spokesman Capt. David Campbell said. Isagulyan died of his injury Tuesday at County-USC Medical Center. Police found Isagulyan Monday in the 500 block of South Glendale Avenue conscious and moaning, his head and face covered in blood, after several 911 calls reported shots fired in the area, according to a police report.

Los Angeles police detectives have arrested four people in Las Vegas in connection with a quadruple homicide in Northridge, Chief Charlie Beck announced Tuesday. The four people were taken into custody without incident at the Silverton Hotel and Casino, Beck said. The suspects were identified as Ka Pasasouk, 31, of Los Angeles; Howard Alcantara, 30, of Glendale; Donna Rabulan, 30, of Los Angeles; and Christina Neal, 33, of Los Angeles. Pasasouk was arrested on suspicion of murder, Beck said.

DOWNTOWN — Detectives are looking for a 35-year-old Glendale woman whose 5-month-old son’s death from blunt-force trauma to his head was recently ruled a homicide. Glendale police officials on Thursday said homicide detectives have tried contacting Fereshteh Eghtedari for more than a month, but she disappeared sometime after the Nov. 16 car crash at Gardena Avenue and Tyburn Street. “We are still investigating it, but I think she fled,” Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said.

GLENDALE — Authorities have determined that the Station fire, which caused the death of two firefighters and sent hundreds of residents and animals seeking shelter, was caused by arson. An official at the Interagency Command Center confirmed that an arson investigation had been opened, but referred all other inquires to Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department spokesman Steve Whitmore, who could not be reached for comment Thursday evening. The determination likely meant that the death Sunday of two county firefighters, whose vehicle overturned on a steep roadway in the Angeles National Forest within the fire zone, would be considered a homicide.

HANSEN DAM PARK — An ongoing homicide investigation cast a cloud over a prayer gathering at the Station fire interagency command center early Friday for two firefighters who died battling the massive blaze, which authorities believe was deliberately set. After firefighters met for the brief service, Station fire Incident Commander Mike Dietrich briefed reporters on the status of the 148,258-acre blaze and denounced the deadly act of arson...

GLENDALE — Authorities on Thursday identified the man who was shot to death Wednesday morning inside his Lexus SUV as Ara Terunyan of North Hollywood. An autopsy on Terunyan, 35, was being performed Thursday to determine how many times he was shot, said Lt. Brian Elias of the Los Angeles County Coroner’s office. Terunyan and his wife, whom police officials didn’t identify, were waiting for an appointment Wednesday at a doctor’s office in the 300 block of West Colorado Street, Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said.

GLENDALE ? Authorities on Thursday identified the man who was shot to death Wednesday morning inside his Lexus SUV as Ara Terunyan of North Hollywood. An autopsy on Terunyan, 35, was being performed Thursday to determine how many times he was shot, said Lt. Brian Elias of the Los Angeles County Coroner?s office. Terunyan and his wife, whom police officials didn?t identify, were waiting for an appointment Wednesday at a doctor?s office in the 300 block of West Colorado Street, Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said.

GLENDALE — In what was the city’s first homicide of 2009, a 35-year-old North Hollywood man died after he was shot multiple times Wednesday morning while seated in his black Lexus SUV in a parking lot on Elk Avenue, police said. A gunman approached the man, whose name wasn’t released pending family notification, while he was waiting inside his SUV in the Allstate Insurance parking lot on the 300 block of Elk Avenue. The unknown assailant then fired several shots into through the driver’s side window, Glendale Police Sgt. Tom Lorenz said A police officer who was among the first to arrive just after 11 a.m. administered CPR, but the victim was pronounced dead at the scene — his limp leg hanging out the open driver’s side door as his blood-covered body slouched over the center console.

The investigation into an apparent suicide that was reported about 3:30 p.m. on Sunday is ongoing, according to Los Angeles County Sheriff?s homicide spokesman. The victim has been identified as Martin Wehmann, 40, of Los Angeles. He was found under the bridge near Big Tujunga Canyon Road by U.S. Forestry Department officers on Sunday. The initial call was of an injured man, said Mike Leum, member of Montrose Search and Rescue Team. The team was informed it was a fatality while en route.