{"id":19042,"date":"2026-04-21T19:41:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:41:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/19042\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T19:41:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T19:41:42","slug":"arrest-made-in-burbank-double-stabbing-that-left-mother-dead-daughter-in-critical-condition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/19042\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest made in Burbank double-stabbing that left mother dead, daughter in critical condition"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Police have made an arrest in a fatal stabbing in Burbank that left a mother dead and her adult daughter wounded.<\/p>\n<p>About 10 p.m. Monday, a SWAT team descended on the 500 block of East Palm Avenue in Burbank and took 30-year-old Sergio Fraire into custody on suspicion of murder and attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier that morning about 6 a.m., police had rushed to a home on North Brighton Street in response to a reported stabbing. Once they arrived, they found 59-year-old Arti Varma and her 25-year-old daughter both injured. Varma was taken to a hospital, where she died. Her daughter, who was identified by neighbors as Meera Varma, is in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>            <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Booking photo of Sergio Fraire\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"1498\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776800501_280_.jpeg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>         <\/p>\n<p>Sergio Fraire, 30, was taken into custody on suspicion of murder and attempted murder on Monday night.<\/p>\n<p>(Burbank Police Department)<\/p>\n<p>Neighbors told <a class=\"link\" href=\"https:\/\/ktla.com\/news\/local-news\/quiet-burbank-street-reeling-after-attacker-kills-mother-critically-injures-daughter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">KTLA<\/a> that Arti Varma was a public school teacher and Meera Varma is a mental health advocate and public speaker \u201cwho has worked alongside high-profile national figures.\u201d Photos posted on her LinkedIn page showed her at events with former President Biden and former talk show host Oprah Winfrey, among other prominent people.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m still shocked by it,\u201d neighbor Christina Strattan told KTLA. \u201cI can\u2019t even wrap my head around who would do such a thing. Why would somebody target them?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>            <img class=\"image\" alt=\"Then-President Biden taking a selfie with student leaders from Active Minds, including Meera Varma, in 2022\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1776800502_589_.jpeg\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>         <\/p>\n<p>Then-President Biden takes a selfie in 2022 with student leaders from Active Minds, including Meera Varma, who represented UCLA at a meeting about mental health.<\/p>\n<p>(Courtesy of Meera Varma)<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between the suspect and the victims is being investigated, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information related to this case has been asked to contact the Burbank Police Department\u2019s Investigation Division at (818) 238-3210.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police have made an arrest in a fatal stabbing in Burbank that left a mother dead and her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19043,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[11514,1380,11513,11516,2454,8,630,11511,11512,11515,11520,9,11518,11517,11519,2451,7,5877],"class_list":{"0":"post-19042","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-top-stories","8":"tag-arti-varma","9":"tag-authority","10":"tag-burbank-neighbor","11":"tag-burbank-police-department","12":"tag-daughter","13":"tag-headlines","14":"tag-investigation","15":"tag-ktla","16":"tag-local-mother","17":"tag-meera-varma","18":"tag-neighborhood","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-public-school-teacher","21":"tag-shock","22":"tag-surveillance-footage","23":"tag-suspect","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-victim"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@news\/116444403288612418","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19042\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}