Social justice advocate Michael Latt was gunned down at his home over his friendship with a Hollywood director who was being stalked by the accused killer, according to prosecutors.
Jameelah Elena Michl, a 36-year-old homeless woman living out of her car, was charged with murdering the 33-year-old advocate and Hollywood marketing executive after forcing her way into his Mid-Wilshire home late Monday.
“She targeted him for being friends with a woman she had been stalking,” the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said in an update Thursday.
Although the DA did not identify the woman being stalked, Latt’s director friend A.V. Rockwell had taken a restraining order out against Michl, who’d appeared as an extra in one of her movies, “A Thousand and One.”
According to court documents, the suspect allegedly hand-delivered chilling letters to the director’s home — including one warning, “My Glock is loaded.”
Another person was at Latt’s home at the time he was killed, according to the DA, although it was not Rockwell, according to the Associated Press.
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