Jury Convicts Man In Highland Park Bus Murder

LOS ANGELES, CA — A Glendale man was convicted Tuesday of first-degree murder in the stabbing death of a fellow passenger on a Metro bus in Highland Park.

A Los Angeles Superior Court jury deliberated about a half-hour before finding Allan Jay Milton, 44, guilty of the Nov. 9, 2015, killing of Phillip Melendez of Los Angeles.

Jurors also found true an allegation that he used a knife during the commission of the crime.

Authorities said Milton stabbed the 49-year-old victim after getting into an argument with him. Milton fled when the bus stopped at North Figueroa and Meridian streets, but he was arrested the next day by the sheriff's Transit Policing Division.

Milton, who is due back in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom for sentencing on April 26, faces up to 26 years to life in state prison.

City News Service