Amie Harwick fell down the balcony from a third floor. Police have arrested a former boyfriend as a suspect. They ask for two million bail
He was 38 years old and was one of Hollywood's best known sex therapists . Amie Harwick was killed last weekend at her home in Los Angeles and police have already arrested a suspect who has been identified by authorities as Gareth Pursehouse, a former boyfriend of the victim who had two restraining orders.
After receiving a call at emergency number 911 on Saturday night, officers found Harwick lying on the ground "seriously injured" at the doors of his home, and died hours later in the hospital, according to a statement from Los Angeles police.
Apparently the victim fell from the balcony of a third floor, according to police told a person who lived with Harwick, who revealed that the therapist was being assaulted inside his house that night . A report from the Los Angeles County coroner's office has already cataloged the case as a homicide.
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According to different local media reports such as the Los Angeles Times newspaper or the CNN channel, the well-known sex therapist had obtained in the past from the authorities two restraining orders against Pursehouse, who according to court documents abused her on multiple occasions.
The suspect, who was a Harwick couple for two years over a decade ago, is in a Los Angeles jail and the judge has issued a bail of two million dollars. Since April 2015, he had a restraining order that prevented him from approaching it within 90 meters.
Harwick, who began her career as a model for Playboy magazine before graduating as a psychologist, dated for years with the well-known television host Drew Carey, who has been in charge of the program "The right price" for over a decade, which has discontinued
temporarily the recordings after knowing the murder of the therapist.
"I hope you are fortunate enough to have someone in your life who loves you as much as she did," said Carey through his social networks, where he said goodbye to his ex-girlfriend, with whom he became engaged , and asked his followers who join a signature collection campaign to ask for #JusticiaParaAmie. "
The petition was published by a friend of the victim, Diana Arias, through the Change.org web portal with which she seeks to expand the rights of victims of domestic violence . Specifically, it calls on state legislators to extend the maximum terms of restraining orders to more than five years .
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