Posted on April 27, 2011 by creeping
D.A. to seek death in killings, burnings of family
SANTA ANA – The Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced Wednesday that it will seek the death penalty against a Van Nuys man accused of murdering his ex-girlfriend’s father and sister and setting their bodies on fire.
Iftekhar Murtaza, 25, qualified for a potential death sentence when a judge found enough evidence at a preliminary hearing in January to require that he stand trial on two counts of first-degree murder, plus the special circumstances of committing multiple murder, murders during the commission of a burglary and kidnapping, and murders for financial gain.
He is also charged with conspiracy to commit murder and attempting to murder his ex-girlfriend’s mother in May 2007.
Murtaza is being held without bail and is scheduled for a pretrial hearing on Friday in the Central Justice Center, Santa Ana.
Prosecutors will seek life in prison without the possibility of parole for Murtaza’s co-defendants, Vitaliy Krasnoperov, 24, of Hollywood, and Charles Anthony Murphy, Jr., 25, of Mission Hills.
All three men have pleaded not guilty
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