Killer who slashed womans throat in unprovoked attack on LA train is put away for life

Elliot Tramel Nowden, 47, was put away for life Friday for the brutal unprovoked slaying of a woman on a Los Angeles Metro in April, 2024. Mirna Soza Arauz’s throat was slashed by Nowden as she rode the B-Line train and the car pulled into the station, leaving her to bleed out on the platform.The 67-year-old was rushed to the hospital where she was pronounced dead, Los Angeles Police Department said said.Nowden was arrested for murder just 30 minutes after the attack at the Universal City Station in Studio City, police said.He was convicted on Nov.

17 of first-degree murder and robbery. Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Karla D.Kerlin imposed an additional eight years behind bars for the robbery charge, in addition to the life sentence with no parole. Nowden is a repeat offender with a rap sheet including theft and multiple second degree battery charges. Arauz has at least three children, according to media reports.

Her son, Jose Roman Soza, said she was his best friend. “It was very painful to realize that she was murdered for the things she would give away,” he told the judge through a Spanish interpreter Friday, reported My News LA. He realized something was wrong when she wasn’t home to cook him breakfast before he left for work that day.“I felt something in my chest,” he told the outlet. “As long as my mother is happy in heaven, the murderer is going to be miserable on earth,” the victim’s youngest daughter, Nadia Cisne Soza said....