{"id":487144,"date":"2026-10-06T17:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T17:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/487144\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T17:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T17:54:09","slug":"man-charged-with-kidnapping-a-ucla-student-raping-a-culver-city-woman-is-found-dead-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/487144\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with kidnapping a UCLA student, raping a Culver City woman is found dead \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 26-year-old man who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/ucla-kidnapping-rape-alexander-schecter\/3872124\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">charged in April <\/a>with kidnapping a female UCLA student in March 2026 and the rape of another woman in October 2025 in Culver City has died, multiple Law enforcement sources tell NBC 4<\/p>\n<p>Police and paramedics responded to the 800 block of San Vicente shortly before 6 p.m. Monday night to reports of a person not breathing after a family member found the man unresponsive in a bedroom.<\/p>\n<p>Personnel with the Santa Monica Fire Department also responded to the report and pronounced the man dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The man was later identified as a 26-year-old Alexander Schecter.<\/p>\n<p>Foul play is not suspected and the case is being investigated as suspected suicide; a death investigation has been opened.<\/p>\n<p>The final determination of the cause and manner of death will be made by the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner, the Santa Monica Police Department said. <\/p>\n<p>Schecter, who was out on bond, was due in court on Tuesday for a preliminary setting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 26-year-old man who was charged in April with kidnapping a female UCLA student in March 2026 and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487145,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-487144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}