{"id":697936,"date":"2010-03-22T15:19:15","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T19:19:15","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:39:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:39:01","slug":"argument-at-persian-new-years-party-led-to-pasadena-art-college-teachers-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/697936","title":{"rendered":"Argument at Persian New Year’s party led to Pasadena art college teacher’s death"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Lanow.schureman\"<\/img><\/a> An argument at a Persian New Year’s party in Westlake Village turned deadly when someone allegedly used a religious expletive against a guest’s wife, police said Monday. <\/p>\n

A design teacher at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Norman Schureman, 51, was shot and killed Sunday after the woman’s husband left the party and returned with a knife and two guns, said Lt. Liam Gallagher of the L.A. County Sheriff’s Department.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was a perceived insult, the suspect left the party with his wife, came back on his own with two guns,\u201d Gallagher said Monday.<\/p>\n

It was unclear who made the original insult, allegedly against the wife of suspect Steven Honma, 55.<\/p>\n

Honma, who is a neighbor of the party’s host in the 31000 block of Kentfield Court, returned to the party, where guests had been drinking alcohol, and pulled out a knife, Gallagher said. Honma flicked the knife open and shut in front of other partygoers, who tried to stop him, Gallagher said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey told him to put it away,\u201d Gallagher said. \u201cThere was a physical altercation. They tackled him. That\u2019s when he pulled a gun and fired it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schureman was the only person hit, police said. Other guests held Honma until police arrived and arrested him. He remained in custody Monday.<\/p>\n

Schureman, who lived in Altadena, also was a graduate of the Art Center College of Design. President Lorne M. Buchman referred to Schureman on the school’s website<\/a> Monday as a \u201ccelebrated and adored member of our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

— Ching-Ching Ni <\/p>\n

Photo: Norman Schureman was a professor at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena. Credit: Steven A. Heller \/ Art Center College of Design<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An argument at a Persian New Year’s party in Westlake Village turned deadly when someone allegedly used a religious expletive against a guest’s wife, police said Monday. A design teacher at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Norman Schureman, 51, was shot and killed Sunday after the woman’s husband left the party and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3571,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697936","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Vz2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697936","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3571"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697936"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697936\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":799304,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697936\/revisions\/799304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697936"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697936"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697936"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}