Michael Latt Dies In Residence Invasion; Suspect ID’d In Studio Marketing consultant & Activist’s Killing At Mid-Wilshire Residence
The suspect within the killing of former Netflix staffer and Array advisor Michael Latt this week has been revealed by the LAPD, as has the sufferer himself.
The police say Jameelah Elena Michl was arrested on Latt’s doorstep quickly after the deadly capturing of the veteran studio operative and activist at his mid-Wilshire house at 6 p.m. November 27. Apparently dwelling close by in her automotive, the homeless lady had seemingly invaded the residence of Latt and his girlfriend on Monday night. She didn’t make any effort to go away the scene of the crime, regulation enforcement officers confirmed.
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Latt died quickly afterwards at close by hospital.
Nonetheless investigating the killing of Latt, 33, the LAPD tells Deadline no motive has emerged but. Michl was arrested by officers from Wilshire Division and remained in custody on $3 million bail.
Latt’s mom, Michelle Satter, based the Sundance Institute Administrators and Screenwriters Lab in 1981. She can be honored with the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award by the Academy of Movement Image Arts and Sciences at subsequent yr’s ceremony. Satter took to social media this morning to mourn her baby:
Our beloved son Michael Latt fell sufferer to a tragic act of violence this week. Michael devoted his profession to supporting artists, championing organizations that raised up artists of shade, & leveraged storytelling for enduring change. We have fun his legacy, love & compassion. pic.twitter.com/AlhuNNBWXZ
— Michelle Satter (@SundanceSatter) November 29, 2023
Having fashioned social impression group Lead with Love in 2019, Latt was additionally the communications director and political advisor for Oscar winner and John Wick star Frequent’s nonprofit Think about Justice from late 2016 to mid-2021.
A supervisor at Netflix from April 2021 to November of that yr, Latt served as a advisor for Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Now, Warner Bros Footage’ Multicultural Advertising and marketing Division, and Annapurna Footage’ If Beale Avenue May Discuss over the previous few years. Earlier than that, in addition to working for the Sundance Institute as a digital content material producer and advertising advisor from 2014 to 2018, Latt put in time within the advertising departments of the Marketing campaign for Black Male Achievement, Magnolia Footage’ James Baldwin fueled 2016 documentary I Am Not Your Negro, Fox Searchlight’s Delivery of A Nation from Nate Parker, Sony and the Weinstein Firm.
As extra details about Latt’s loss of life grew to become recognized up to now 24 hours, Black Checklist discovered Franklin Leonard paid tribute to his pal Wednesday morning on social media:
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