NEWBURY PARK : Not-Guilty Plea Entered in Slaying
A 27-year-old Newbury Park man pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a charge of murder in a June 20 shooting attack on his housemate, who died several days later from gunshot wounds to the face.
Todd Richard Love, who was indicted by the county grand jury late Monday, will stand trial Aug. 30 on the murder charge and a special condition that he used a gun in the commission of a crime, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Michael K. Frawley.
Love was arrested early on the morning of June 20 after Ventura County sheriff’s deputies responded to a disturbance call in the 3900 block of San Marcos Court.
Deputies later found Frank Kish, 32, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the face and stomach.
Kish was taken to Los Robles Regional Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, where he died June 24. He lived in the same Newbury Park home where the shooting took place and was the boyfriend of Love’s sister, Deputy Public Defender Robert A. Dahlstedt said.
Dahlstedt said earlier that Love was attacked by Kish moments before the shooting. Dahlstedt suggested that the killing may have been self-defense.
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