Karine Hakobyan, 38

March 31, 2010, 9:43 a.m.

Karine Hakobyan, a 38-year-old white woman, was fatally shot Friday, March 26, in the 5800 block of Lexington Avenue in Hollywood, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.

On Friday night, Hakoybyan's 14-year-old daughter came home to an empty apartment. She got worried when her mother didn’t come home from work, so the girl walked down to the carport looking for her.

There, she found her mother's body slumped in her Honda CRV with a gunshot wound to the back of the head.

Eighteen months earlier, the same daughter arrived home from school and discovered her father and 8-year-old sister shot to death inside the family’s Hollywood apartment.

On Monday, a team of Los Angeles police detectives were trying to piece together the three killings, which occurred a few blocks from each other in Hollywood’s Little Armenia district.

Detectives believe the killings are connected but declined to provide more details.

-- Andrew Blankstein and Ching-Ching Ni

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Alberd Tersargyan was arrested for her murder. Karine may have been the target of a stalker. Here's a link with more info:

http://www.aolnews.com/crime/article/karine-hakobyans-la-slaying-may-solve-mystery-of-her-husbands-daughters-deaths/19452333

He was allegedly a friend of the family and obsessed with Karine. They knew each other in Armenia and when her family moved over to Hollywood, he moved as well. He may be connected to the earlier murders of Karine's husband and daughter but police have not been able to prove that yet.

One thing leaves me puzzled by all of this. If it's true that Alberd was making advances on Karine, was his name mentioned to police when her husband ended up dead? Wouldn't he seem a person of interest in his brutal slaying? It's possible that Karine's husband's slaying might have been done by a professional killer but Alberd would have had all of the incentive in the world to want him dead. It seems like info was withheld in this case. Karine may have made the fatal mistake of thinking she could handle Alberd's advances on her own. But since we don't have all of the facts it's impossible to know what was really going on.

— JB June 19, 2010 at 1:12 p.m.