An elderly man in Anaheim was beaten to death on May 31, allegedly by an assailant out on bail who had attacked another city resident just 20 minutes prior.
Anaheim Police Department homicide detectives arrested David Steven Abbott, 30, after officers responded to an in-progress assault at the intersection of Catalpa and Falmouth avenues around 12:20 p.m. At the scene they discovered the victim, 70-year-old Rahmatolah “Davey” Yaghoubi, suffering from severe head trauma.