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Encino Leaders Seek Crime Monitoring Center While LAPD Expands Patrols in Kaye-Deluca Homicide

Residents are urging a real-time crime monitoring center after officers twice failed to enter the home following 911 calls.

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Overview

  • Raymond Boodarian, 22, is held without bail on first-degree murder and residential burglary charges with arraignment scheduled for August 20.
  • LAPD is reviewing its home-entry protocols following two July 10 calls when officers secured the perimeter but did not enter the Kaye-Deluca residence.
  • The department has increased night and mounted patrols, launched helicopter flyovers and deployed license plate readers across Encino.
  • Encino community leaders have petitioned Mayor Karen Bass and LAPD Chief Jim McDonnell for a local crime monitoring center, substation and drone surveillance.
  • Prosecutors located Boodarian after he called police to identify himself, and Los Angeles County officials say the couple were killed with their own gun.