Police Say Suspect in 2 Slayings Admits Role

A Las Vegas man charged in the alleged murder-for-hire of a Brentwood couple told police that on the night of the slayings, he was paid $5,000 to watch for the couple’s car and radio others that they were about to arrive home, according to a police affidavit made public Monday.

“I saw the people coming and said into the radio, ‘Here they come,’ or something like that. I knew what was going to happen; they would be killed,” police quoted Michael Lee Dominguez as saying.

Dominguez, 27, was extradited from Las Vegas over the weekend and appeared in Los Angeles Municipal Court on Monday, where arraignment was set for May 5, Deputy Dist. Atty. John Krayniak said.

Failing Business

Five others have been arrested in the deaths of Vera, 63, and Gerald Woodman, 67, including the victims’ sons, Neil, 42, of Encino, and Stewart, 41, of Hidden Hills. The two men are accused of arranging to have their parents killed after a post-Yom Kippur dinner in order to collect on a $500,000 insurance policy to salvage the family’s failing plastics company.

All but one suspect were arrested on March 11, two days before Dominguez gave a statement to two Los Angeles police officers, in which he implicated Steven M. Homick, 45; his brother, Robert Homick, 35, and Anthony (Sunny) Majoy in the murders, the affidavit states.

Majoy, 47, was arrested Wednesday in Reseda and is scheduled to be arraigned today.

In his affidavit, Officer Richard Crotsley said Dominguez told him that he and Steven Homick flew from Las Vegas to Burbank last Sept. 24, the day before the Woodmans were killed in the garage of their Gorham Drive condominium. Dominguez told the officer that he accompanied Steven Homick to a lawyer’s office, where Homick picked up a handgun.

Later, Crotsley said, Dominguez overheard Steven Homick telling Majoy, “There’s a lot of money in this, we can’t miss.”

The next day, according to the affidavit, Dominguez and Steven Homick went to the Woodman couple’s building to make sure that they were not home. Then, Dominguez told Crotsley, the two men “went to a corner where he (Homick) said the victims would pass.”

At some point, according to Dominguez’s statement, Robert Homick and Majoy arrived, and Robert told the others he had been involved in a traffic accident that evening. (Police confirmed that an accident occurred about one-tenth of a mile from the Woodmans’ residence.)

“I was told to look for a tan Mercedes with two people in it, an older man and a lady,” Crotsley quoted Dominguez as saying.

After he had alerted the others to the couple’s arrival, Dominguez said, he and Steven Homick went out to dinner.

“I later received $5,000 from Steve for my part,” Crotsley quoted Dominguez as saying.