Unique | Chilling footage emerges as knifeman slashes Oprah-linked activist, kills her mother — as motives emerge

That is the chilling second armed SWAT officers captured a knifeman accused of slashing an Oprah Winfrey-linked activist and killing her mom.

Ring doorbell footage confirmed Sergio Fraire, 30, being led away in handcuffs following the horrific assault in Burbank, California, early Monday.

Excessive-flying psychological well being activist Meera Varma, 25, was injured and her instructor mom Arti, 59, died from stab wounds.

Cops stated they’re three doable motives, together with whether or not the suspect knew Meera by means of her psychological well being program, if he had a relative who taught at Arti’s faculty, or whether or not he was her pupil.

Video obtained by the California Submit confirmed the second officers raided Fraire’s father’s home two miles away from the assault.

The doorbell footage from a neighbor exhibits him being led away in handcuffs earlier than police put him at the back of a cruiser and booked him into jail.

Earlier video exhibits officers at a neighbor’s home exhibiting photos of the suspect and asking if the house owner may determine him.

Burbank Police Division Lieutenant Brent Fekety informed the Submit, “We’re nonetheless making an attempt to determine why he was at their home, and what he was doing there.”

He stated there have been no indicators of pressured entry, nothing was taken from the home and revealed it was Meera who had dialed 911 after she was stabbed round 6am.

Fekety additionally revealed the suspect sprinted your entire two miles between the scene of the assault and the place he was detained.

He added it was unclear if Meera or her mom have been the targets, however stated that they had spoken to her briefly after she obtained out of surgical procedure.

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Meera is outstanding psychological well being activist who has labored with Joe Biden, Kamala Harris and Oprah Winfrey on mental-health initiatives.

She was a vocal advocate for suicide prevention and gave a Tedx speak on the topic in 2023. She spoke in extraordinarily private phrases on suicide, noting that she contemplated suicide in April 2018.

“We might imagine that we now have six levels of separation between ourselves and an individual who has been affected by suicide,” she stated.

“However I can assure that you just all have just one diploma of separation between your self and an individual who nearly died by suicide. And that somebody is me.”

Meera stated her mom, Arti, comforted her as she lay crying on her bed room flooring that April day.

“My mother squeezed me even tighter, regarded me instantly within the eyes and stated, ‘I really like you. I’m not going wherever. I’m right here. I’m right here,’” she stated.

Her mom was a a second-grade instructor at Bret Harte Elementary College within the Burbank faculty district.

She’s the second instructor from the varsity to be killed lately. Her pals mourned her demise, and referred to as her a “brilliant” and “joyful” determine.

“She was an incredible instructor, and she or he liked being a instructor,” the sufferer’s buddy Cristina Strattan informed ABC 7. “She was such a brilliant mild. She was at all times so joyful, so pleased with her children.”

Meera’s father, Arti’s husband, was in India on the time of the stabbing.