LOCAL : Hacienda Heights MD Acquitted of Killing Son, Chopping Up Body
A Hacienda Heights physician was acquitted today of charges he strangled his 11-year-old son as part of a bitter custody dispute and dismembered the boy’s body, dissecting his flesh into more than 200 pieces.
Dr. Khalid Parwez, 40, a native of Pakistan, was found not guilty by a Superior Court jury in Pomona of one count of first-degree murder. Jurors reached their verdict on their second day of deliberations.
Parwez, an obstetrician and gynecologist who was on staff at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in West Los Angeles, had been in custody since the slaying in lieu of $8-million bail.
The junior high school student’s body was discovered on Nov. 17, 1987, in plastic bags in a trash bin outside a Hacienda Heights apartment complex.
The boy’s uncle, Sattar Ahmad, had rented an apartment in the complex four days earlier. Ahmad also was charged with murder but disappeared the day after the murder.
Circumstantial evidence in the case included receipts showing that Parwez had purchased a sledgehammer, ax and other items shortly before the killing and his lack of reaction to news of his son’s death.
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