{"id":518633,"date":"2010-04-06T22:34:07","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T02:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef01347fb2bb2f970c"},"modified":"2010-04-06T22:34:08","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T02:34:08","slug":"westlake-village-man-pleads-not-guilty-to-killing-pasadena-art-professor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518633","title":{"rendered":"Westlake Village man pleads not guilty to killing Pasadena art professor"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 54-year-old Westlake Village resident who police say <\/span>shot and killed<\/a> a popular Pasadena art professor at a party pleaded not guilty to murder charges Tuesday. <\/p>\n

Attorneys for Steven Ronald Honma, who was arraigned in a Van Nuys courtroom, said their client was defending himself during an attack at a neighbor\u2019s party and did not intend to shoot Norman Schureman, 50, of Altadena. <\/p>\n

On March 20, Honma and his wife attended a Persian new year\u2019s party in Westlake Village, hosted by Schureman\u2019s mother-in-law. Honma felt that someone had made a crude remark about his wife, and he took her to their home two doors away from the house where the party was held, Los Angeles County Sheriff\u2019s Lt. Liam Gallagher said.<\/p>\n

Honma later returned to the party with a knife and two guns. Authorities say that after a fight broke out, Honma shot Schureman in the upper torso. Schureman died the next day at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Westwood. <\/p>\n

Honma\u2019s attorneys said their client was beaten during the fight and was hospitalized with head wounds and internal injuries.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles County district attorney\u2019s office charged Honma with one count of murder and one count of possession of a firearm with a prior conviction. <\/p>\n

\u201cThis is not a case of murder, rather an unintended and accidental homicide which occurred during the course of a physical struggle that Mr. Honma did not initiate,\u201d Honma\u2019s attorneys at Kestenbaum, Eisner & Gorin said in a statement. \u201cFriends, family and co-workers hold him in very high esteem and find the alleged conduct to be completely out of character.\u201d <\/p>\n

Honma was being held on $2-million bail. If convicted, he faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.<\/p>\n

— Corina Knoll <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A 54-year-old Westlake Village resident who police say shot and killed a popular Pasadena art professor at a party pleaded not guilty to murder charges Tuesday. Attorneys for Steven Ronald Honma, who was arraigned in a Van Nuys courtroom, said their client was defending himself during an attack at a neighbor\u2019s party and did not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4135,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518633"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518633\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}