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CS Northridge Lineman’s Bail Reduction Request Denied : Jurisprudence: Beauregard, 22, remains in Rancho Cucamonga jail on a charge of attempted murder in shooting.

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Jonathan Beauregard, the Cal State Northridge football player charged with two counts of attempted murder, remained in jail after a judge denied his attorney’s request for lower bail Monday.

“I’m concerned with the defendant getting out,” Judge Donald E. Van Luven said at the hearing in San Bernardino. “It’s very scary because he’s extremely impulsive. . . . We could have a double homicide.”

Beauregard, a two-year starter at offensive guard for the Matadors, was booked Aug. 29 on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon. He was released within hours after posting $15,000 bail.

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The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s office later increased the charge to attempted murder.

At his arraignment last week, Beauregard, 22, pleaded not guilty and his bail was increased by $100,000 because $15,000 was deemed too low for the new charge.

Beauregard’s attorney, Grover L. Porter, asked Monday that the judge reduce bail to $50,000.

“We would like bail to be set at a reasonable amount,” Porter said. “(Beauregard) resides in this area and attends school at Cal State Northridge, where he is on a football scholarship.”

Beauregard, who has been in custody at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga since his Oct. 19 arraignment, listened from an adjacent glass structure. Clad in an orange jail uniform, he walked out slowly with his head down after the hearing.

Beauregard is charged with shooting his former girlfriend and mother of his child, Dunyella Darshell Smith, and her male acquaintance, Von Eric Thompson, outside a San Bernardino bar.

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A hearing is scheduled Nov. 4.

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