The Los Angeles druggie accused of murdering “American Idol” executive Robin Kaye and her husband once tried to stab his own mother during a mental health episode, according to frightened neighbors.
“I know at one time he tried stabbing his mom, I believe, or got violent with a knife,” a neighbor of suspect Raymond Boodarian told Fox News.
“Cops finally came and they took him,” they added. “I didn’t see him for a while until recently.”
The 22-year-old’s alarming behavior was a fixture around his neighborhood, with most suspecting it was a case of severe mental health problems.
“I just know he was troubled. I know he was on medication, on and off medication… he needed help,” the same neighbor said.
“Police were always called here to this house… He had good days, bad days… He would always be taken away for a couple of months, released back over here, roaming around the neighborhood, talking to himself, saying things.”
Neighbors also told The Post he was a heavy drug user.
“We had a lot of problems with him because he’s taking drugs. Every now and then he would be outside high,” an 80-year-old local said.
Boodarian was arrested Tuesday, just a day after the bodies of Kaye and her husband, both 70, were found with fatal gunshot wounds in their Encino home — located about 15 minutes from the suspect’s.
Fingerprints from his prior arrests helped identify him as a suspect in the grisly double murder.
Boodarian has at least three prior arrests to his name across late 2023 and early 2024, with charges ranging from battery to making threats with a weapon.
In each of those cases, the charges were dropped over mental competency, according to NBC 4 Los Angeles.
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Boodarian was also released the same day after at least two of those arrests, court records show.
He spent up to six months in custody before his cases were ultimately dismissed.
He also appears to have been under a conservatorship, indicating a judge found him incapable of making decisions for himself.
Other neighbors of his told Fox there was constant yelling at the Boodarian family home, and claimed he would wander the neighborhood brandishing knives at doorbell cameras.
“He was very odd… he’d literally go and… rub up against trees,” one said.
Police allege Boodarian broke into Kaye and DeLuca’s $4.5 million mansion sometime Thursday afternoon, and that he shot them dead when they came home about half an hour later.
Encino, which is home to celebrities like Nick Jonas and Dave Grohl, has dealt with a series of alarming break-ins in the last year.
Last summer, break-ins spiked 40% during a stretch of weeks between July and August — when at least eight break-ins by masked thieves were reported at area homes.
LA Police said those burglaries fit the playbook used by Latin street gangs, which are known to target neighborhoods for several weeks at a time before moving on to other areas.
Boodarian appeared to act alone and was not a part of a wider criminal organization, police said after his arrest.
