{"id":293966,"date":"2020-02-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-05T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/university-city-man-ordered-to-trial-in-homicide\/"},"modified":"2020-02-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-05T08:00:00","slug":"university-city-man-ordered-to-trial-in-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/university-city-man-ordered-to-trial-in-homicide\/","title":{"rendered":"Hombre de Ciudad Universitaria ordenado a juicio por homicidio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light', serif; font-size: medium;\">A University City man was ordered Tuesday to stand trial for murder in the stabbing death of his roommate whom he had assaulted earlier in 2018 with a knife.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light', serif; font-size: medium;\">Brandon Ganskow, 34, was held to answer on the murder of Kevin Crosthwaite, 56, in a preliminary hearing conducted by San Diego Superior Court Judge Kenneth So.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light', serif; font-size: medium;\">A deputy medical examiner testified the cause of death of Crosthwaite was due to sharp force injuries from scissors. Contributing to his death were cardiac arrest, hypertension and diabetes, she said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light', serif; font-size: medium;\">A fire captain and police officer were called as witnesses who were at the scene at the house in the 5300 block of Bothe Avenue.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light', serif; font-size: medium;\">Ganskow stabbed Crosthwaite &ldquo;a number of times&rdquo; in the neck with scissors, said Deputy District Attorney Matthew Greco.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light', serif; font-size: medium;\">The prosecutor said Ganskow was placed on probation in 2018 for assault with a knife, and he violated probation terms with violence in the new case.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light', serif; font-size: medium;\">Ganskow was able to return to the same residence with the victim&#8217;s consent in 2019, said Greco.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light', serif; font-size: medium;\">San Diego Police reported getting a call at 6:13 a.m. on July 8 for a person who was not breathing.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light', serif; font-size: medium;\">Ganskow&#8217;s mother also lived with the roommates at the time. He will next return to court on Feb. 11.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri Light', serif; font-size: medium;\">Bail remains set at $3 million, and he remains in jail. He has pleaded not guilty.<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A University City man was ordered Tuesday to stand trial for murder in the stabbing death of his roommate whom he had assaulted earlier in 2018 with a knife. Brandon Ganskow, 34, was held to answer on the murder of Kevin Crosthwaite, 56, in a preliminary hearing conducted by San Diego Superior Court Judge Kenneth [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":256096,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11560","_seopress_titles_title":"University City man ordered to trial in homicide","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11560,11551],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-la-jolla-village-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293966\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}