LOS ANGELES : Suitor to Stand Trial in ‘Fatal Attraction’ Killings

A scorned suitor who allegedly killed a woman and her son and wounded her husband because their daughter refused to date him was ordered Wednesday to stand trial.

After a daylong preliminary hearing, Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Mary Waters ruled that there is enough evidence to try Jun Young Cho, 38, for the Nov. 6 killings of Jae Ha Kim and her son, James. The defendant is also charged with attempted murder in the shooting of the woman’s husband, Jung Soo Kim, who recovered from a stomach wound, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Michelle Daniels.

Cho rented a room in the family’s Koreatown house last July and reportedly fell in love with their 23-year-old daughter, Julie, authorities said. “For five months, he repeatedly tried to date Julie Kim and was repeatedly informed she was not interested,” Los Angeles police homicide Detective Dan Andrews said earlier. “I hate to say it, but it was . . . a fatal attraction.”