Wednesday, August 13, 2008

Don't tell Haziz to 'f*ck off'

From TV Guide.com:

The 40-Year-Old Virgin actor Shelley Malil has been charged with attempted murder in a stabbing attack on a woman he had been dating, prosecutors told TVGuide.com.

Malil, 43, was arrested Monday after traveling by train from Los Angeles to Oceanside, where he was planning to meet with his attorney to turn himself in, San Diego County Sheriff’s Lt. Phil Brust told TVGuide.com. The victim and Malil had recently “had a dating relationship that had ended," Brust said.

Malil could face up to life in prison if convicted, District Attorney's spokesman Paul Levikow said.

The woman’s neighbors in San Marcos, a San Diego suburb, called authorities Sunday night because they heard screaming and breaking glass. They arrived to find the woman with stab wounds and severe lacerations to her face. The suspect fled before deputies arrived.

Malil appeared in The 40-Year-Old Virgin as Haziz, one of the Indian-American electronics store employees who work with the lonely, awkward Andy Stitzer (Steve Carell). He has also appeared in the movies El Cortez, Holes, and The Second Civil War.

The name of Malil’s attorney wasn’t immediately available. The actor was being held on $2 million bail Wednesday.

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