A 25-year-old Burbank man has been charged with killing his mom, a longtime Burbank elementary faculty instructor, police mentioned.
Cops and paramedics discovered Karyn Lombardo, 57, unconscious inside her residence within the 800 block of North Avon Road about 10 p.m. Tuesday, the Burbank Police Division mentioned in an announcement.
Lombardo, a instructor at Bret Harte Elementary Faculty, was pronounced useless on the scene.
Her son, Kyle Lombardo, was booked on suspicion of homicide primarily based on proof on the residence that he “prompted her dying throughout an altercation within the household residence,” the place he additionally lived, in line with police. They didn’t present additional particulars.
Lombardo is being held on the Burbank jail in lieu of $2-million bond, in line with Los Angeles County inmate information.
On Thursday, L.A. County Dist. Atty. George Gascón introduced that Lombardo had been charged with one rely of homicide.
If convicted, he faces a most sentence of life in state jail, the district legal professional’s workplace mentioned in an announcement.
Vince Lombardo, the instructor’s husband, instructed KTLA-TV that their son suffered from psychological sickness and that police had been known as to their residence earlier than.
“She beloved him greater than something and tried to assist him,” he mentioned. “All of her college students love her. Coming by the system right here, there have been college students who grew to become academics due to her.”
Lombardo taught on the faculty for 30 years in a wide range of roles, together with educating kindergarten, intervention and performing arts refrain, John Paramo, superintendent of the Burbank Unified Faculty District, mentioned in an announcement.
“Over the course of her extremely completed profession, Ms. Lombardo touched the lives of hundreds of scholars, mother and father, and colleagues, who might be mourning this loss within the days to come back,” Paramo wrote. “Her dedication, heat, and keenness for educating touched many college students’ and colleagues’ lives.”
Paramo mentioned Lombardo started her profession with the district as a bilingual instructor at Joaquin Miller Elementary Faculty in 1990. Three years later, she transferred to Harte.
Faculty psychologists and social service employees might be on web site in coming days to assist college students and employees, Paramo mentioned.
