BURBANK : Man Faces Trial in 2 Killings Over Rosebush
A Burbank man was ordered to stand trial Thursday on charges that he killed two women and injured another in a shooting spree hours after the man was convicted of striking his neighbor in a dispute over a rosebush.
Thomas Paul Humenik, 25, is to be arraigned Aug. 21 in Pasadena Superior Court on two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder.
The shooting occurred on the 2800 block of North Keystone Street on May 20, hours after Humenik was convicted of battery and fined $810 for attacking his neighbor, Don Boyd. Killed were Boyd’s wife, Merle, 73, and a friend, Sheila Young, 45. Another friend, Geraldine Correll, 70, was wounded in the shoulder. Boyd, who is in his 70s, had stepped onto Humenik’s property in January to trim roses that bordered the two lots. Humenik told Boyd to go back on his own property and then struck him, authorities said.
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