A homeless woman in Los Angeles has admitted to stalking a movie director and shooting her friend, a Hollywood consultant and social justice fighter, in his own home. She has also been charged with other crimes.
Authorities say that 36-year-old Jameelah Elena Michl killed 33-year-old Michael Latt in November while she was looking for his friend, the director A.V. Rockwell.
They say she knocked on the door, pushed her way in when he answered and shot him in the head. The police say that at least one other person was in the house at the time, but Rockwell was not there.
She wrote Rockwell a scary letter before the shooting in which she said, “My Glock is loaded” and “One pull of the trigger, and I’ll be free,” as shown in court papers.
Rockwell had asked for a court order to stop Michl from seeing her last year.
The killer could get anywhere from 25 years to life in jail. Records show that she will be sent back to court on July 10 to be sentenced.
In addition to being a social justice activist who worked on movies with messages he believed in, Latt also started a marketing company called Lead With Love and was its CEO and CFO. His stated goal was to “dedicate his career to being of service, supporting influential women and artists of color and utilizing storytelling, art and more to spark lasting change and bring hope, love, and inspiration to communities.”
Lead With Love says that Latt worked on movies like “Fruitvale Station,” which is about the police shooting that killed Oscar Grant in Oakland, California, in 2009, and “Till,” which is a biopic about the mother of Emmett Till, who was killed by a lynch mob. Besides Ava DuVernay, who directed “Selma,” he also worked with Ryan Coogler, who directed “Black Panther.”
Latt wrote on Instagram that he and Common went to Black Lives Matter protests over the deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor. He has also written posts in support of Democratic politicians, such as Sens. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock of Georgia.
That was in June 2022. “Not enough change has happened since the 2020 Uprising,” he wrote. “We’ll continue to fight and stand up against police violence and White supremacy until true justice is real in this country.”
The musician and actor Common, the Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams, and U.S. Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) are all shown in pictures with Latt on his website.
Michelle Satter, who works as an executive at the Sundance Institute and is Latt’s mother, wrote on X that her son “fell victim to a tragic act of violence.”
Latt comes from a family with a lot of connections in Hollywood. Deadline says that his father, David Latt, makes movies and that his brother is the head of talent at CAA.
Source: Fox News