LOS ANGELES (AP) — A person charged with fatally taking pictures an “American Idol” music supervisor and her husband of their Los Angeles house will bear psychological analysis to find out whether or not he is match to face trial, a choose dominated Wednesday.
Raymond Boodarian, 22, was set to be arraigned in a courthouse in Los Angeles however didn’t enter a plea. A choose suspended the legal proceedings towards him whereas a psychiatrist examines him to find out his competency.
He is charged with two counts of homicide within the killing of longtime “American Idol” producer Robin Kaye and her husband Thomas Deluca, each 70, who have been shot once they got here house unexpectedly throughout a housebreaking on July 10.
A choose at a court docket that makes a speciality of psychological well being will take into account the analysis and resolve whether or not Boodarian will proceed towards trial or be positioned in a state hospital.
Boodarian stood behind a window in a custody space of the courtroom, and appeared to attempt to stay out of sight.
His legal professional declined remark, and the district legal professional’s workplace had no rapid remark.
Boodarian will bear the identical analysis in the identical small courthouse on Hollywood Boulevard the place a person charged with stalking Jennifer Aniston and driving into the entrance gate of her house was just lately discovered to be not competent to go to trial.
Police stated they responded to a 911 name a couple of housebreaking on the house of Kaye and Deluca within the Encino neighborhood of Los Angeles. Police stated they discovered no signal of compelled entry or different hassle and left.
4 days later the couple’s our bodies have been discovered, shot to demise, when officers carried out a welfare examine on the house. Boodarian was arrested the next day.
District Legal professional Nathan Hochman later stated in a group assembly that investigators imagine the couple arrived house unexpectedly whereas Boodarian was burglarizing it. He shot them with their very own gun and later known as 911 himself, Hochman stated.
Kaye had been with “American Idol” for greater than 15 years and was engaged on the upcoming season of the hit singing competitors TV collection on the time of her demise. She had additionally labored within the music departments of a number of different productions, together with “The Singing Bee,” “Hollywood Game Night,” “Lip Sync Battle,” and several other Miss USA and Miss Universe pageants.
