The Los Angeles druggie accused of murdering “American Idol” government Robin Kaye and her husband as soon as tried to stab his personal mom throughout a psychological well being episode, in line with frightened neighbors.
“I do know at one time he tried stabbing his mother, I consider, or acquired violent with a knife,” a neighbor of suspect Raymond Boodarian advised Fox Information.
“Cops lastly got here they usually took him,” they added. “I didn’t see him for some time till not too long ago.”
The 22-year-old’s alarming habits was a fixture round his neighborhood, with most suspecting it was a case of extreme psychological well being issues.
“I simply know he was troubled. I do know he was on treatment, on and off treatment… he wanted assist,” the identical neighbor stated.
“Police have been all the time referred to as right here to this home… He had good days, unhealthy days… He would all the time be taken away for a few months, launched again over right here, roaming across the neighborhood, speaking to himself, saying issues.”
Neighbors additionally advised The Submit he was a heavy drug consumer.
“We had numerous issues with him as a result of he’s taking medicine. Every so often he can be exterior excessive,” an 80-year-old native stated.
Boodarian was arrested Tuesday, only a day after the our bodies of Kaye and her husband, each 70, have been discovered with deadly gunshot wounds of their Encino house — situated about quarter-hour from the suspect’s.
Fingerprints from his prior arrests helped establish him as a suspect within the grisly double homicide.
Boodarian has a minimum of three prior arrests to his identify throughout late 2023 and early 2024, with fees starting from battery to creating threats with a weapon.
In every of these circumstances, the costs have been dropped over psychological competency, in line with NBC 4 Los Angeles.
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Boodarian was additionally launched the identical day after a minimum of two of these arrests, courtroom information present.
He spent as much as six months in custody earlier than his circumstances have been finally dismissed.
He additionally seems to have been below a conservatorship, indicating a choose discovered him incapable of constructing selections for himself.
Different neighbors of his advised Fox there was fixed yelling on the Boodarian household house, and claimed he would wander the neighborhood brandishing knives at doorbell cameras.
“He was very odd… he’d actually go and… rub up towards bushes,” one stated.
Police allege Boodarian broke into Kaye and DeLuca’s $4.5 million mansion someday Thursday afternoon, and that he shot them lifeless after they got here house about half an hour later.
Encino, which is house to celebrities like Nick Jonas and Dave Grohl, has handled a sequence of alarming break-ins within the final 12 months.
Final summer season, break-ins spiked 40% throughout a stretch of weeks between July and August — when a minimum of eight break-ins by masked thieves have been reported at space houses.
LA Police stated these burglaries match the playbook utilized by Latin avenue gangs, that are recognized to focus on neighborhoods for a number of weeks at a time earlier than transferring on to different areas.
Boodarian appeared to behave alone and was not part of a wider felony group, police stated after his arrest.
