Tuesday, December 15th, 2009.
Issue 51, Volume 13.
MURRIETA - A preliminary hearing for a Pala man who allegedly stabbed and killed his girlfriend in a parking structure at The Promenade mall is set to resume today.
Mickey David Beauchamp Wagstaff, 25, is accused of first-degree murder with the special circumstance allegation of committing murder during a rape.
He faces life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted in the death of Elizabeth Kellenbarger Amirian, 27, in a van parked at the shopping center on Winchester Road in Temecula.
The District Attorney chose not to seek the death penalty.
According to authorities, a sheriff's sergeant on patrol spotted the man stabbing a woman and ordered him out of the Toyota minivan but the man would not comply, prompting the sergeant to break the rear window and subdue the man
with a stun gun.
The preliminary hearing, which began Monday, will enable a judge to determine if there are grounds for Wagstaff to stand trial.
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