Husband had outstanding warrants for violence
The man who shot and killed his wife before killing himself this past weekend had two outstanding warrants for domestic violence and threatening to use a firearm, police said.
Stephen Louis D’Anjolell, 52, had a $15,000 warrant in Santa Monica issued in March for domestic violence and a $5,000 warrant issued from West Hollywood for exhibiting a firearm in a rude or threatening manner, said Santa Monica Police Lt. Frank Fabrega.
Details of either case were not available at presstime.
D’Anjolell’s two daughters found him and their mother, Julieann D’Anjolell, 51, dead in the living room of their apartment, located at 909 Euclid Ave. Sunday morning. Residents who live near the couple said they heard gunshots on Friday at about 6:15 p.m.
Concerned that they couldn’t reach their parents, the daughters went to the apartment, broke in through a window and found the couple dead at about 11:30 a.m., according to witnesses. The daughters, one in her early 20s and the other a teen-ager, screamed loud enough for neighbors to rush to the scene. An unidentified man with the daughters called Santa Monica police, who had the crime scene taped off until the late afternoon when the Los Angeles Coroner’s Office removed the bodies.
Autopsies were conducted Tuesday. The coroner ruled Julieann D’Anjolell’s death a homicide with a gunshot wound to the head. Stephen D’Anjolell’s cause of death has been ruled a suicide, with a gunshot wound to the head.
Several neighbors said the couple, who lived in the apartment for about three months, fought incessantly.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on September 18, 2002. Read the original PDF.