Beloved teacher killed as she slept, daughter stabbed in attack as motive remains unclear: DA

A beloved Southern California simple schoolhouse teacher was killed and her daughter, a nationally recognized intelligence wellness advocate, was critically injured aft a antheral allegedly broke into their location and stabbed them arsenic they slept, prosecutors said.

Sergio Meza Fraire, 30, of Burbank, has been charged with execution and attempted execution successful the April 20 onslaught connected 59-year-old Arti Varma and her 25-year-old daughter, Meera Varma, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.

Authorities accidental Fraire entered the location sometime betwixt 3 a.m. and 6 a.m. portion the victims were asleep. Around 6 a.m., helium allegedly went into a chamber and repeatedly stabbed some women.

Arti Varma, a first-grade teacher astatine Bret Harte Elementary School, aboriginal died from her injuries. Her girl survived and remains hospitalized.

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Stabbing subsister Meera Varma seen with erstwhile President Joe Biden astatine an event. (Meera Varma Facebook)

Meera Varma is simply a salient intelligence wellness advocator and TEDx talker who has worked alongside high-profile figures including Oprah Winfrey, President Joe Biden, First Lady Jill Biden, erstwhile Vice President Kamala Harris and U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, according to her idiosyncratic website.

She was the youngest talker successful TEDxUCLA past and has been invited to the White House to sermon younker intelligence health. In 2023, she appeared with Winfrey astatine UCLA to talk astir the younker intelligence wellness crisis, focusing her enactment connected supporting young radical and encouraging unfastened conversations astir intelligence health.

Investigators person said the onslaught does not look to person been random, though authorities person not publically disclosed a imaginable motive oregon whether the fishy knew the victims.

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Burbank stabbing fishy Sergio Fraire booked connected murder, attempted execution charges. (Burbank Police Department)

"Detectives bash not judge this was a random act; however, they proceed to analyse the narration betwixt the fishy and the victims, arsenic good arsenic motive," Burbank Police Department Lt. Brent Fekety told Fox News Digital.

Despite a burglary charge, constabulary indicated determination is nary grounds the fishy intended to bargain anything.

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"It does not look the fishy entered with the intent to perpetrate theft," Fekety continued.

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Fraire was identified arsenic a fishy pursuing what constabulary described arsenic a broad probe involving interviews, surveillance reappraisal and grounds collection.

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Fraire pleaded not blameworthy successful tribunal and is being held without bail. He is expected to instrumentality to tribunal successful June arsenic the lawsuit moves forward.

Slain California teacher Arti Varma seen with girl Meera. (Arti Varma Facebook)

"Arti Varma was a profoundly beloved simple schoolhouse teacher who was senselessly taken from her household and assemblage successful an enactment of horrific violence," Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said.

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"We volition instrumentality each indispensable measurement to guarantee that the suspect is held accountable for this vicious and unprovoked attack."

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If convicted, Fraire could look beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole oregon the decease penalty, prosecutors said. A determination connected whether to question superior punishment volition beryllium made astatine a aboriginal date.

The probe remains ongoing.