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STUDIO CITY : Not-Guilty Plea in Actor’s Shooting

By JAMES QUINN and HENRY CHU
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A Studio City man accused of shooting television actor Jameson Parker in a dispute over the performer’s three dogs pleaded not guilty Monday to attempted murder.

At his arraignment in the Van Nuys Courthouse, Robert St. George, 52, also pleaded not guilty to one count of assault with a firearm, Deputy Dist. Atty. Herbert Lapin said.

The 44-year-old actor--best known as the clean-cut younger brother in the TV detective drama “Simon & Simon”--was wounded in the stomach and arm. He was able to walk home and was hospitalized overnight.

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Police said St. George shot Parker after the actor came to his Shadyglade Avenue home to discuss a dispute earlier Thursday afternoon, in which St. George reportedly yelled obscenities at Parker’s wife, saying the couple’s dogs had urinated on his front lawn.

Van Nuys Municipal Judge Michael Knight scheduled a hearing Wednesday to consider St. George’s request that his bail, set at $250,000, be lowered. He also scheduled a preliminary hearing in the case for Oct. 15.

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Henry Chu

Henry Chu first joined the Los Angeles Times in 1990 and worked primarily out of the San Fernando Valley office before moving to the foreign staff in 1998. He served as bureau chief in Beijing from 1998 to 2003, Rio de Janeiro from 2004 to 2005, New Delhi from 2006 to 2008 and London from 2009 to 2014. He was a 2014-15 fellow at the Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard. From 2016-19 he was international editor at Variety magazine. A graduate of Harvard University, Chu returned to The Times in March 2020 as deputy news editor based in London. He left in 2024.

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