MURDER TRIAL SET FOR TEEN BOY SUSPECT IN DEATH OF EX-TALK-SHOW HOST IN A.V. MOTEL ROOM.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - A 17-year-old has been ordered to stand trial for murder in the fatal stabbing of a former television personality who was known for helping troubled youths. Paul Romando is scheduled to be arraigned Jan. 25 after he was found unfit to be tried as a juvenile in the slaying of Field Terry Simes, 41, who hosted a talk show on KPAL in 1998. ``According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the defendant, they met on the street,'' prosecutor Greg Denton said. ``The victim was involved in a church outreach program that tried to help kids in trouble, and they may have met that way. ``The defendant said they were going to go talk about the defendant's singing career, a rap career.'' The manager of the Tropic Motel on Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling found Simes' body about 1 a.m. April 14 when he went to the room to check out another guest's complaint of a fight. A man was seen driving away Simes' BMW BMW in full Bayerische Motoren Werke AG German automaker. Founded as an aircraft engine manufacturer in 1916, the company assumed the name Bayerische Motoren Werke and became known for its high-speed motorcycles in the 1920s. sedan Sedan (sədäN`), town (1990 pop. 22,407), Ardennes dept., NE France, on the Meuse River. A noted textile center since the 16th cent., Sedan also has metal and brewing industries. The town became part of French crown lands in 1642. , which had personalized license plates reading FTERRYS. ``There was a fight of some kind because one of the motel occupants heard arguments and loud voices, somebody slammed against the wall of the motel room,'' Denton said. ``There's a knife wound to the victim's throat that cut some branches to the victim's carotid artery carotid artery n. 1. An artery that originates on the right from the brachiocephalic artery and on the left from the aortic arch, runs upward into the neck and divides opposite the upper border of the thyroid cartilage, with the external and and jugular vein jugular vein n. Any of the three jugular veins: anterior, external, and internal. .'' When Romando was arrested May 5, he told detectives he stabbed Simes after the man made a sexual overture. However, Simes' relatives have told investigators he was not gay. Friends and relatives said the victim was a faithful Christian who spent much of his time visiting jail inmates and ex-convicts and trying to set them on the right track. He frequently rented rooms for ex-convicts and others with nowhere to live, they said. Romando was tracked down through his girlfriend, who had been seen at a picnic ground in the Angeles National Forest The Angeles National Forest (ANF) was established by executive order on December 20, 1892 as the San Gabriel Timberland Reserve. It covers over 2,600 km² (650,000 acres) and is located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, just north of the metropolitan area of Los helping a young man remove the license plate from Simes' BMW sedan and ditching the victim's property into a Dumpster. Authorities said Simes' killer robbed him of $400 in cash, a watch, rings, a necklace and his car. |
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