San Fernando Valley : Woman Shoots Teen-Ager, Kills Self

Distraught that a 19-year-old man whom she had a romantic interest in was moving out of her house, a 51-year-old North Hollywood woman shot and wounded him Wednesday, then fatally shot herself, witnesses and police said.

The woman, Andrea Kritzmira, told the man, Trinity Lee Harl, “‘I can’t live without you anymore,”’ according to her 20-year-old nephew, Andrew Coleman, who witnessed the shooting.

“Those were the words I heard before I heard the gunshot,” he said.

Kritzmira, an unemployed mother of one son, died three hours later at North Hollywood Medical Center, police said. Harl was listed in good condition at Mission Hills Hospital.

Coleman said that Harl had lived with Kritzmira for more than a year but that they were not romantically involved. His aunt, however, wanted a romantic relationship and was disturbed when she discovered Harl moving his bags out of the house about 12:30 p.m., he said.

Kritzmira pleaded for the man to stay, and when he refused, she shot him once in the stomach, Coleman said. The teen-ager staggered into the street with Kritzmira on his heels.

As stunned neighbors watched Harl run bleeding down the street, Kritzmira ran back into the house, put the revolver to her head and fired, Coleman and other witnesses said.

“She shot herself right in front of me,” said a visibly shaken Coleman.

“Apparently they were living together, and the young man wanted to terminate the living arrangement,” said Los Angeles Police Department spokesman Eduardo Funes. “It upset her so much that she shot him and then turned the gun on herself.”