LOS ANGELES _ Amie Harwick, a well-known family therapist, was killed Saturday at her Hollywood Hills home by a former boyfriend, authorities said.
The Los Angeles Police Department on Saturday afternoon arrested Gareth Pursehouse, 41, of Los Angeles' Playa del Rey section, for murder in connection with Harwick's death, according to a release from the agency. He is being held on $2 million bail, according to county jail records.
LAPD officers responded around 1:16 a.m. Saturday to a call of a woman screaming in the 2000 block of Mound Street in the Hollywood Hills. When officers arrived, they were met by her roommate in the street. He informed officers that Harwick was being assaulted inside of her residence. The roommate had jumped a wall and went to neighboring residences to call for help.
When officers got to the home, they found the victim on the ground beneath a third-story balcony, gravely injured in a manner consistent with a fall, police said. The Los Angeles Fire Department took Harwick to a local hospital, where she later died from her injuries, police said.
LAPD investigators found possible evidence of a struggle as well as forced entry to the residence. A canvass of the area located further evidence of an intruder entering the property and leaving after the incident.
Detectives learned that Harwick had recently expressed fear about a former boyfriend and had previously filed a restraining order against him. The restraining order had expired and the victim had seen this former boyfriend two weeks ago.
On Saturday afternoon, an FBI-LAPD Fugitive Task Force arrested Pursehouse outside of a residence in Playa del Rey.
Harwick was previously engaged to TV star Drew Carey and appeared in the 2015 documentary "Addicted to Sexting."
