Man Charged With Killing Girlfriend, Stabbing Her Daughter In Sherman Oaks

LOS ANGELES, CA — A man was charged Monday with fatally stabbing his live-in girlfriend and injuring her daughter in Sherman Oaks.

Lyle Clark, 33, pleaded not guilty to one felony count each of murder and attempted murder — both with allegations that he personally used a knife.

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He is also charged with three misdemeanor counts of child abuse under circumstances or conditions likely to cause great bodily injury or death involving three other children.

Clark was arrested at the scene after Los Angeles Police Department officers responded around 7:20 p.m. last Thursday to the 15000 block of Burbank Boulevard, where they found two females suffering from stab wounds, police said.

The 33-year-old woman, identified by police as Ikea Batty, was pronounced dead at the scene by Los Angeles Fire Department personnel.

The woman was the mother of the four children, but Clark — her live- in boyfriend — was not the father of any of the children, according to Jonathan Hatami, assistant head deputy of the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office's Complex Child Abuse Section and Family Violence Division North County.

The injured girl was taken to the hospital, according to police.

Clark is due back in a Van Nuys courtroom Nov. 10. A date is scheduled to be set then for a hearing to determine whether there is enough evidence to allow the case against him to proceed to trial.

City News Service