Glendale News Press
LATimes.com
March 5 2005
Attempted-murder charges added to case
The grandson of a 94-year-old Glendale woman whose body was found
inside a torched hillside home faces capital-murder charges,
prosecutors said Friday.
Antranik Khajarian, 37, of Glendale was also charged with two counts
of attempted murder of his mother and father, according to a press
release from the Los Angeles district attorney’s office. The murder
count carries a special circumstance of arson, which makes Khajarian
eligible for the death penalty, prosecutors said.
Prosecutors also identified the grandmother as Arpine Demerjian.
Khajarian was scheduled to be arraigned Friday at Glendale Superior
Court, but his plea was postponed, prosecutors said. It has been
rescheduled to March 24 in Burbank Superior Court, prosecutors said.
The defendant on Tuesday allegedly set fire to the home he shared
with his parents and grandparents in the 200 block of Wonderview
Drive, police said. He was found crossing the Mexican border midnight
Tuesday, police said. Khajarian is being held in county jail on no
bail, prosecutors said.
