A Glendale man was charged Thursday with the stabbing death of a passenger aboard a Metro bus in Highland Park.
Allan Jay Milton, 43, is scheduled to be arraigned Friday on a murder charge stemming from the death of Phillip Melendez of Los Angeles. The murder count includes the allegation that Milton personally used a knife during the commission of the crime.
Milton, who’s being held on $1 million bail, allegedly stabbed Melendez on Monday after getting into an argument with him on the bus. Milton allegedly fled from the bus when it stopped at North Figueroa and Meridian streets and was arrested the following day by the sheriff’s Transit Policing Division.
If convicted, he could face up to 26 years to life in state prison, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
Authorities previously said they were looking for three suspects, but now say the other two men are considered witnesses to whom investigators would like to speak.
— City News Service