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Shelley Malil had a busy career as a comic role player, appearing in a vast hit motion picture, several TV shows and a commercial that aired during the Super Bowl. But the actor charles Herbert Best known for his part in "The 40-Year-Old Virgin" has now been charged with attempted murder afterwards his girlfriend was stabbed more than 20 times, authorities said.Malil, 43, was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday good afternoon in Vista, north of San Diego, said Paul Levikow, a spokesman for the San Diego County District Attorney's office.
He remained in hands on $2 million bail after existence charged with attempted bump off with exceptional circumstances of premeditation, causation great bodily injury and using a deadly weapon, said Deputy District Attorney Steven Carver. Malil faces a uttermost sentence of life in prison if convicted on all counts.
Authorities confirmed the victim's individuality as Kendra Beebe. According to her Facebook thomas Nelson Page, she is a 35-year-old mother of two world Health Organization works as an insurance policy broker in Carlsbad, a coastal suburb.
She was listed in decisive condition Monday, according to the San Diego Sheriff's Department. Spokeswoman Jan Caldwell said Tuesday she had no update on Beebe's condition.
Eve Salony, who lives across the street from Beebe, told the San Diego Union-Tribune that Beebe was having dinner with a date in her back yard on Sunday when Malil showed up and "got into the initial scramble" with Beebe's date. Salony said the date "got scared and he ran over here. He was bleeding."
Chuck Lee, 32, wHO lives next door to Beebe, told the Union-Tribune that he was watching TV when he heard Beebe screaming and went to help.
Lee said he saw a man with a knife on Beebe's front terrace, restraining the woman.
"I unbroken telling him, 'You don't want to do this,'" Lee said. He said the man unbroken saying, "Look at what she did to me."
A woman world Health Organization answered the phone at Beebe's office declined to comment to The Associated Press.
Malil's agent, Mark Measure, also declined to comment.
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