Woman charged with stalking Lakers’ Walton - LA Daily News By Larry Altman, Staff Writer
An El Segundo woman has been charged with stalking Lakers forward Luke Walton at his Manhattan Beach home and at the team’s practice sessions.
Stacy Elizabeth Beshear, 34, was arrested Sept. 18, Manhattan Beach police Sgt. Steve Tobias said Monday.
Walton filed a report late last year that Beshear was harassing him in November and December. “He reported that the woman was using a Sharpie marker and writing on his car,” Tobias said. “She was following him. She’d park in front of his home and wait for him to leave and return. She told him that, `You are supposed to be the person I marry.”‘
Tobias said Walton complained that, on Sept. 15, Beshear followed him to the house of Lakers teammate Jordan Farmar, pulled up next to him in her car, simulated a gun with her hand and moved her thumb as if she was cocking the weapon.
“She had made other gestures, including extending her middle finger,” Tobias said. “He had indicated that she had a very serious and angry look on her face when she was doing this.”
The district attorney’s office’s Stalking and Threat Assessment Team charged Beshear with one misdemeanor count of stalking. Beshear, who was released on bail, pleaded not guilty Sept. 19 and is scheduled to return to Torrance court Nov. 6 for trial.
Members of Beshear’s family said she had no comment.
Walton told the Orange County Register in an article published Monday that Beshear parked outside his home for hours, sometimes in the middle of the night. He would drive out and see her, worried that she would break into his house.
“When she pulled up to my house and started yelling at me after she fired a fake gun at me, I couldn’t help but to start yelling back at her,” Walton said. “She was in my driveway. But when we were interacting, I could tell by the stuff she was saying that she’s not all there in the head - which makes me feel bad for her. At the same time, most people who go on killing sprees are people who aren’t all there in the head.”
Walton said Beshear “told me that we belong together. … And then she started flipping out about all sorts of stuff. She said she wanted to move to San Diego, but people wouldn’t let her. I was like, `What people?’ She’s like, ` … The people in the universe! They won’t let me move, because they say you and I are supposed to be together.”‘
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