By TERRI VERMEULEN KEITH
LOS ANGELES — A former Los Angeles Police Department civilian employee was sentenced Wednesday to two consecutive life prison terms without the possibility of parole for murdering his wife and teenage son as they slept in their Valley Glen apartment.
Viktor Yuryevich Glukhovskiy — who worked in the LAPD’s Security Services Division — was convicted last November of the Dec. 26, 2018, killings of his wife, Natali, 39, and their 13-year-old son, Alex, who were each shot in the head in their beds in the family’s second-floor apartment on the 13800 block of Oxnard Street.
Jurors found true special circumstance allegations of lying in wait and multiple murders and gun use and discharge allegations, but rejected a special circumstance allegation of murder for financial gain. Prosecutors had suggested the killings were done in part to cash in on insurance policies, but also so Glukhovskiy could begin a new life with another woman.
“To kill one’s spouse is atrocious. To kill one’s child — a blood son — is unimaginable,” Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Ronald S. Coen said just before handing down the sentence.
Three people who spoke on the victims’ behalf said they are still grieving the deaths.
“Her murderer did not just kill two people. He hurt so many,” Yelena Kaminsky told the judge. “The cruelty of what happened to Natali and Alex reaches a completely different level … This is beyond betrayal. This is pure evil.”
Another friend, Marie Morgan-Haberman, said the victims were “two beautiful people who had so much ahead of them.”
“There is no forgiveness here,” she said, adding that the defendant is “going to get exactly what he deserves.”
Mireille Rostamian told the judge that “the heartbreak will never go away.”
In a sentencing memo, Deputy District Attorney Dan Akemon wrote that Glukhovskiy “ambushed” his wife and son “in their beds as they slept, and shot them in the…
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