Post by Linalin on May 9, 2005 18:47:08 GMT -5
Female Japanese student stabbed to death in LA; boyfriend arrested
LOS ANGELES — A 22-year-old female Japanese student attending a language school was found stabbed to death early Saturday at her home in San Gabriel in the suburbs of Los Angeles, police said Sunday.
Police have arrested her boyfriend, George Wood Pigman IV, 23, and he is being held on $1 million bail.
The police found Eimi Yamada's body with multiple stab wounds in the chest and other areas, and injuries indicating that she had been beaten. Pigman was found naked and making noise on a roof near the victim's home, they said.
Yamada, who was from Saitama Prefecture, had been studying English at the language school in Pasadena for about six months, they said.
According to the Pasadena Star News, sheriff's deputies were responding to a prowler call in the neighborhood just before 2 a.m. on Saturday when they received another call reporting a body nearby in Palma Vista Avenue.
TV network ABC7 quoted a neighbor as saying that he heard someone running around on his roof and when the person would not stop, he called authorities. When deputies arrived, "there was an adult white male, totally nude on the roof, with blood on his body,' Lt Gil Carillo of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department told ABC7.
The Pasadena Star News reported that neighbors had often seen Pigman skateboarding in the neighborhood and had heard the couple arguing before.
"We had heard a lot of arguing, and the boy just didn't understand her thinking, so it's very sad," the paper quoted neighbor Gay Beck as saying. (Compiled from wire and news reports)
That's the craziest thing I've heard in a good while.
LOS ANGELES — A 22-year-old female Japanese student attending a language school was found stabbed to death early Saturday at her home in San Gabriel in the suburbs of Los Angeles, police said Sunday.
Police have arrested her boyfriend, George Wood Pigman IV, 23, and he is being held on $1 million bail.
The police found Eimi Yamada's body with multiple stab wounds in the chest and other areas, and injuries indicating that she had been beaten. Pigman was found naked and making noise on a roof near the victim's home, they said.
Yamada, who was from Saitama Prefecture, had been studying English at the language school in Pasadena for about six months, they said.
According to the Pasadena Star News, sheriff's deputies were responding to a prowler call in the neighborhood just before 2 a.m. on Saturday when they received another call reporting a body nearby in Palma Vista Avenue.
TV network ABC7 quoted a neighbor as saying that he heard someone running around on his roof and when the person would not stop, he called authorities. When deputies arrived, "there was an adult white male, totally nude on the roof, with blood on his body,' Lt Gil Carillo of the Los Angeles Sheriff's Department told ABC7.
The Pasadena Star News reported that neighbors had often seen Pigman skateboarding in the neighborhood and had heard the couple arguing before.
"We had heard a lot of arguing, and the boy just didn't understand her thinking, so it's very sad," the paper quoted neighbor Gay Beck as saying. (Compiled from wire and news reports)
That's the craziest thing I've heard in a good while.
