A Daytime Emmy-winning producer who stabbed his tenant over an argument about the Academy Awards has been found guilty of attempted murder, the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office said Thursday.
Andre Salaman Bautista was also found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon. Bautista, a.k.a. Andre Bauth, could receive 13 years in state prison for the incident, which occurred in September 2015 in Studio City.
He is scheduled for sentencing March 22.
Bautista, who won a Daytime Emmy for his producing work on the online soap opera “The Bay,” was accused of stabbing his tenant, identified in the media as Clayton Haymes, after the two argued about Bautista’s Oscar-winning potential.
According to the district attorney’s office, Bautista “stabbed his tenant in the chest after the victim laughed when the defendant said he would win five Academy Awards, according to court testimony.”
In an odd twist of the knife, Bautista had previously written and starred in an independent movie about a landlord who killed his tenants, per evidence produced in court.
In an interview with CBS Los Angeles shortly after the attack, Haymes said that Bautista bragged that he would someday win five Oscars and became “upset” when his claim was scoffed at.
“When he said ‘five Oscars,’ we all kind of laughed a little bit, and he got really upset,” Haymes said.