HUSBAND ARRESTED IN SAVAGE SLAYING.Byline: Orith Goldberg Staff Writer NORTHRIDGE - Police arrested a man Tuesday on suspicion of murdering his estranged es·trange tr.v. es·tranged, es·trang·ing, es·trang·es 1. To make hostile, unsympathetic, or indifferent; alienate. 2. To remove from an accustomed place or set of associations. wife, who was pulled from her car, stabbed several times and run over with a van in front of several horrified hor·ri·fy tr.v. hor·ri·fied, hor·ri·fy·ing, hor·ri·fies 1. To cause to feel horror. See Synonyms at dismay. 2. To cause unpleasant surprise to; shock. witnesses. Samuel Baca Duran, 54, was arrested after he was spotted outside a Woodland Hills bank and was being held without bail. ``This is a very, very brutal homicide,'' said Capt. Joe Curreri of the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Police Department's Devonshire Division. Teresa Duran, 56, died Monday evening on Vanalden Avenue near Schoenborn Street after being pulled from her car by her hair, beaten, stabbed and run over twice, investigators say. The Durans were in the middle of a messy divorce, police said, and Teresa Duran had obtained a restraining order restraining order: see injunction. against her husband in April. She had moved to a safe house two months ago, friends said, and had put her house up for sale. She was in the neighborhood to check on it. ``They were always one of those couples the neighbors always wondered about,'' a friend said, recalling that one Christmas, Teresa Duran suffered a broken jaw and missing teeth. ``She told me he had beaten her up.'' Friends and neighbors, most of whom declined to give their names, citing their fear of Samuel Duran, said there was a history of violence and domestic abuse in the couple's marriage. ``He was a very macho man, the king of the castle,'' the friend said. ``It was very clear to all of the (people) who knew them.'' Neighbors said they knew about the abuse. ``You'd never think he'd go this far,'' said neighbor Harry Middione. ``He beat on her pretty good. He'd joke with her and say, 'Let's go for a hike so I can push you off the cliff.' '' Friends said Samuel Duran recently pulled all the furniture out of the house when his wife put it up for sale. Duran is no stranger to violence. He served time in prison for assaulting a building inspector The following articles relate to the topic of building inspector:
``(The inspector) came out to rearrange my attitude, but, as you can see, he got his face rearranged instead,'' Duran wrote in a letter to the court. ``He is complaining about his eye. He is lucky he didn't get shot.'' Police said that on Monday evening, Samuel Duran used a white Ford minivan to force his wife's car against a truck. He then got out, pulled her out of the car by the hair, and beat her in front of children and adults living on the quiet residential street, officers said. Witnesses tried to restrain the man. ``Three of (the neighbors) had him and they still couldn't hold him down,'' said Asael Gonzalez Jr., 30. Teresa Duran was walking backward away from her attacker with her hands up as he ran back to the car, picked up what appeared to be a chef's knife In cooking, a chef's knife, also known as a French knife, is a cutting tool used in food preparation. The chef's knife is an evolution of the butcher knife, and was originally designed primarily to slice and disjoint large cuts of beef. and ran toward her, Gonzalez said. ``He stabbed her seven, eight, nine times - just hacking away,'' Gonzalez said. A witness threw a bicycle to try to stop the attack. But after beating and stabbing Teresa Duran, the attacker ran over her twice. ``He wanted to kill her. He wanted to make sure she was dead,'' Gonzalez said. On Tuesday, family members of Teresa Duran went to a memorial set up where she was killed, kneeling and weeping as they recalled her life and death. ``Everybody I've talked to is saddened by this event,'' said Frank Meredith, executive vice president of speaker manufacturer JBL JBL James Bullough Lansing (audio/speaker engineer) JBL Journal of Biblical Literature JBL John Bradshaw Leyfield (wrestler) JBL Jonathan Bell Lovelace (investment research) of Northridge, where she had worked for 23 years. Police are looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. a white 2001 Ford Windstar The Ford Windstar was a minivan produced and sold by the Ford Motor Company from March 1994 (for the 1995 model year) to 2003. The new front-wheel drive minivan would eventually replace Ford's aging rear-wheel drive Aerostar minivan. minivan with tinted windows. Investigators said Duran rented it in the past week and used it in the crime. Anyone with more information about the crime is asked to call Detective Mike Oppelt at (818) 756-8291, or, after regular business hours BUSINESS HOURS. The time of the day during which business is transacted. In respect to the time of presentment and demand of bills and notes, business hours generally range through the whole day down to the hours of rest in the evening, except when the paper is payable it a bank or by a , to call the Devonshire Division's main number at (818) 756-8283. CAPTION(S): photo, map Photo: (color) Donna Duran places flowers Tuesday at a makeshift memorial at the spot where her mother, Teresa, died. Michael Owen
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