Engineer Pleads Guilty to Killing His Fiancee

A34-year-old computer engineer pleaded guilty in San Fernando Superior Court on Tuesday to killing his fiancee just three months before they were to be married.

Eric Michael Lewis of Canoga Park shot Beverly Jordan, 30, four times with a handgun after house-hunting in Chatsworth on Nov. 29. The two had been arguing about unpaid bills and his failure to complete arrangements for their honeymoon to Hawaii, authorities said.

Lewis, who faces life imprisonment, will be sentenced Aug. 15.

Jordan’s body was found in her car on Santa Susana Pass Road in Chatsworth. The couple had driven there in separate vehicles, then traveled in one car through the area looking at condominiums. After house hunting, they began arguing and Lewis followed Jordan to her car, where he shot her with a handgun he kept under the seat of his pickup truck, authorities said.

Lewis, a former computer engineer for Litton Industries, confessed to the murder when he was arrested that day. Deputy Dist. Atty. Ken Barshop said that after the shooting, Lewis dismantled his handgun and hid the parts. But after his arrest, he led authorities to the pieces of the weapon.