Asieh Kahkouli killed in apparent murder-suicide, police say

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It had been four years since Pierce student

Asieh Moradi Kashkouli had seen her parents who lived in Iran, and friends say that she had a count-down, eagerly awaiting their arrival.

However that day never came.

Kashkouli died one day before her parents arrival.

Kashkouli, 25, was found dead–along with Bahram Varahram, 29–in a residence on the 7100 block of Canoga Park’s Farralone Avenue on Nov. 2, according to a Daily News article.

The Daily News spoke with Officer Rosario Herrera of the Los Angeles Police Department and Lieutenant Fred Corral of the coroner’s office.

“When officers arrived and entered the residence they found two victims with gunshot wounds,” Herrera said.

Varahram shot Kashkouli and then turned the gun on himself, Corral said.

Early investigations by the Topanga Area Homicide Detectives appears that the two were dating, according to the Los Angeles Police Department Media Release.

Craig Kramer a Professor of English, had Kashkouli in his English 84 class.

He sat in his office remembering how he found out about the death of one of his students.

“I came in and it was obvious by the look on some students faces that something terrible had happened, and I basically found out through my students,” Kramer said.

Family and friends gathered on Thursday, Nov.8 at the Forest Lawn Memorial- Mortuaries, Hollywood Hills to remember Kashkouli.

There were about 30-40 people, and most of the ceremony was in Farsi, according to Kramer, who attended the memorial.

“Her parents were there, her mother and father– they were actually coming out to visit her and she was really looking forward to that,” Kramer said. “The day before she was murdered, in class she wrote an essay about her father, and how her father was her best friend.”

Kashlouli’s essay was given to a family friend by Kramer the day of the memorial and in turn it was given to her father the day of the funeral, according to Kramer.

He now faces the task of having to continue teaching the rest of the semester without Kashlouli.