HIT-AND-RUN SUSPECT CHARGED WITH SECOND-DEGREE MURDER
Los Angeles Daily News, CA
July 20 2007
A Glendale man suspected of a hit-and-run crash that killed
a 24-year-old Glendale woman was charged today with second-degree
murder, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office announced.
Ara Grigoryan, 21, was expected to answer to the charge in Pasadena
Superior Court today, said Deputy District Attorney Robert Knowles.
The D.A.’s office will ask that Grigoryan be held without bail.
Grigoryan is suspected of driving a black Mercedes-Benz on July 10 that
struck and killed Elizabeth Sandoval as she was walking on Glendale
Avenue near Windsor Road. The driver did not stop. The vehicle was
found last Saturday near a Van Nuys body shop. Grigoryan was arrested
in Mexico City this week by U.S. Marshals as he was allegedly going
to take a flight to Europe and possibly his home country of Armenia,
police said.
The Mexican government deemed him undesireable and turned him over to
U.S. custody. If convicted, he’s facing 15 years to life in prison,
officials said.
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