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CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / BURBANK

By Corina Knoll
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Investigators have determined that the shooting death of a 49-year-old woman at her home near Toluca Lake is linked to an unpaid debt, authorities said Thursday.

Armen Mangasaryan, 29, of Burbank and Arpiar Tergalstanyan, 20, of Glendale were arrested on suspicion of fatally shooting a woman who answered her door about 12:30 a.m. Wednesday, Sgt. Robert Quesada said. Both men are being held without bail.

The victim and her boyfriend were renting a two-story home in the 4200 block of West Jacaranda Avenue, he said. The victim’s name was not released because family members who live outside the country had not yet been contacted.

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Officers impounded a black Mercedes-Benz that may have been used to drive to the house and found a handgun in the vehicle, Quesada said.

Police have not ruled out the possibility that others were involved. The homicide is Burbank’s first this year, and police want residents to know that the shooting was not random.

-- Corina Knoll

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Corina Knoll

Corina Knoll is a former reporter for the Metro section of the Los Angeles Times. She was on the team that investigated corruption in Bell — which led to the paper’s 2011 Pulitzer Prize for public service — and went on to cover the trials of the city’s former officials. She later contributed to the paper’s coverage of the San Bernardino terror attack that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. As a regional reporter, she wrote features about the San Gabriel Valley and the Westside. During her courts beat, she covered high-profile criminal cases and civil disputes, including the Jackson family vs AEG and Bryan Stow vs LA Dodgers. She and two colleagues investigated sheriff’s deputies whose histories of misconduct landed them on the department’s top-secret Brady list. She left The Times in January 2019. Raised in the Midwest, she is a graduate of Macalester College.

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