Corona man sentenced in killing of girlfriend
A Corona man was sentenced Aug. 26, 2011, to 127 years to life in state prison, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.
In early June 2011, Jasper Stallings, 29, pleaded no contest to nine felony counts including murder, carjacking and second-degree robbery. He also pleaded no contest to one count of misdemeanor hit-and-run.
On May 13, 2009, Stallings carjacked a Dodge Ram pickup truck at gunpoint near the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Tujunga. Stallings drove the red pickup to Arrowhead, where he robbed the driver and abandoned him on the side of the road.
Stallings then drove to Panorama City, where he kidnapped his former girlfriend Erika Balayan. Balayan, a 27-year-old Latina, was shot when she attempted to jump out of the truck in the 8300 block of Van Nuys Boulevard in Panorama City. Stallings got out of the truck, shot her again and then took off leading police on a hour-long chase that ended in the city of Corona.
Balayan was transported to a hospital where she died during surgery.
-- Maloy Moore
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