Menash Hidra’s body was found in his apartment in the fifth-floor Valley village last weekend, and an attacker broke into a nearby unit, jumped from the balcony to his neighboring unit and was attacked. The attackers seemed to have left bloody handprints on the exterior walls during their escape.
The same day, Aleksandre Modebadze was found beaten to death at his home in Woodland Hills after a woman named 911 reported the attack.
Both killings in the San Fernando Valley were disturbing, according to law enforcement officers who were not authorized to talk about the ongoing investigation: Los Angeles police responded to the scene after a 9/11 call, found nothing but returned later to find the victim of the deceased.
The cases are not connected and the suspect has been arrested in the killings of Modebadze.
Dry Blood Stained Valley Village Apartment has the exterior wall of Menasha Hidra killed.
(Richard Winton/Los Angeles Times)
LAPD officials said they have begun an investigation that includes officials’ responses to seeking help.
“We can confirm that both cases have been thoroughly reviewed and investigated, including official responses and schedules,” a department spokesperson told the New York Times.
The ministry refused to answer detailed questions cited by the investigation.
Hidra’s body was in his penthouse in the Ashton Sherman village building at about 2:30 p.m. Saturday, and was conducted by Van Nuys department officials after friends were worried.
Inside the apartment, officers found him unresponsive and Los Angeles Fire Department medical staff announced he was dead at the scene. According to sources familiar with police reports, he stabbed his head and had blood on the floor.
Three days before Hidra’s body was found, neighbors called authorities and reported hearing screams in his apartment. Neighbors reportedly heard a fight, and then a man’s voice said, “I’m going to die. I’m going to die,” law enforcement sources said.
During a recording of a police dispatch call before 4 a.m. on April 23, dispatchers were heard reporting the call to the field officials: “van Nuys Unit, possible ADW [assault with a deadly weapon] In progress… The caller heard two males fighting, wrestling, pounding and yelling. ”
Several law enforcement sources said police responded to the scene but never entered the apartment.
Two residents told The Times they called police during screaming and fighting between 3-4 a.m. Shortly before the fight, the man, now identified as a murder suspect, was captured on ring cameras of several residents trying to enter other apartments in the building. The Times reviewed the camera footage from the floor below the murder. In the video, a tool with a piece of metal sticks out from the suspect’s back pocket.
On Wednesday night, LAPD officials posted videos of the suspect in the apartment stairwell.
“There were 911 calls on Wednesday and they didn’t find him until Saturday, which was crazy,” said Kaci Harabedian, one of the residents of the complex. “There were blood everywhere on the walls, the door handles of the stairwell. How could they miss it?”
But the 911 call about the battle may not be the only sign, it is wrong on the fifth floor. Last Friday, police investigated the burglary in the vacant apartment next door. Internally, officers found broken skylights and dry blood, according to two sources who were not authorized to discuss the investigation.
Investigators suspect the killer may have broken into the vacant apartment near Hidra through the skylight and moved from the balcony of the unit to his.
A reporter on Thursday visited with residents on Thursday, with bleeding handprints and traces seen on the wall between the Sidra balcony and the vacant apartment.
A piece of blood can also be seen on the outside of the building and on the door handles at the stairwell exit, and in a video released by the police, the attacker was seen fleeing the building.
The suspect was described as a dark-haired man, aged between 30 and 40, 5-foot-6 to 5-9 inches tall and weighed 180 to 200 pounds, wearing a dark hooded jacket, a white shirt and blue jeans on the day of the murder. The suspect is still very large.
Another homicide investigation also began on the same day that police found Sidra’s body.
Los Angeles police said in Woodland Hills, 47, had a fatal head injury after three attackers ruptured in the morning Saturday morning.
Menasha Hidra was killed in his Valley Village apartment. The blood left by the suspect at the door of the stairwell.
(Richard Winton/Los Angeles Times)
A woman named LAPD reported about three people breaking into her house and beating her other important incidents, according to law enforcement sources, before calling for a sudden cut. The 911 operator tried to call back multiple times without success. Sources told The Times that shortly before 1 a.m., police arrived at the home, but no one answered the door, there was no noise inside the house, and the blinds fell down.
Later, the officer was severely beaten for head injuries and eventually died from injuries.
Hours after the incident, authorities discovered the alleged killer of Modebadze. Investigators have no evidence of a link between him and Shidra’s killing.
Modoc County Sheriff and Special Attorney Ed Obayashi, training law enforcement on search and seizure policies, said the initial police response to both cases should be further reviewed.
“Even laymen have common sense, you can see that there is an emergency to enter these houses,” he said. “You can’t ignore reports of attacks with deadly weapons or assaults. You’re often there and find a quiet location. But that doesn’t mean someone hasn’t been killed or injured.”
Paata Kochyashvili, 38, Zaza Otarashvili, 46, and Besiki Khutsishvili, 52, are facing charges of murder, as well as special circumstances charges against Modebadze’s death during the robbery. They were detained without bail, pending arraignment.
In this case, the detective tracks the phone and uses camera lens to link the suspect to the assault. According to LAPD, the three entered the house on the 22200 block of Dela Osa Street, repeatedly defeated the victims, and then stole items from him before escaping.
When the people were arrested, authorities recovered about $60,000 in cash and five shots, law enforcement officials said.
LAPD officials said this is not a typical family invasion and robbery, and the suspects allegedly had a former business association. They were unable to contact them to comment.
