LOS ANGELES — An El Segundo woman has been arrested and charged with stalking Los Angeles Lakers star Luke Walton, The Los Angeles Times reports.
Stacy Elizabeth Beshear was arrested on Sept. 18 after she pulled up to Walton’s car and “acted like she was cocking a gun,” according to Sgt. Steve Tobias of the Manhattan Beach Police Dept.
Walton first alerted police officials about the 34-year-old Beshear last year.
“She had been following him to his practice site and following him home and repeatedly asking him to sign basketballs after he’d already done so,” Tobias told the paper. “At one point, she got upset and was taking a Sharpie pen to his vehicle after he refused to sign a soccer ball.”
Beshear has pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor count of stalking. A Nov. 6 court date has been set.
After the arrest, Walton spoke out about the ordeal in an interview with the Orange County Register.
“It’s bananas,” said the 28-year-old forward. “I’ll be going to sleep at night and just randomly look out the window. Just to check. Just because. She has been out there at 12:30, 1:30 in the morning. She would park outside my house for hours and hours.
“I would drive out, and I would see her peeking through. It would suck, because I know I’m leaving my home, and I know she’s still there. What am I supposed to do? Is she planning on breaking in? Am I going to come home one day and she’s sleeping in my bed? Is she going to steal my dog?
“You try not to think about it. But every time I see a black Honda now, I’m like, ‘Is that her?’ I’ll slow down and look. It’s like every day. There are a billion of these cars. Since I’ve noticed her, I’ve noticed these cars are everywhere. It’s like I’m going paranoid like some movie character.”
Walton said he previously attempted to get through to Beshear on his own, shortly after he filed his first complaint with the police. Unfortunately, he said, she eventually “crossed the line.”
“When she pulled up to my house and started yelling at me after she fired a fake gun at me, I couldn’t help but to start yelling back at her,” he told the Register. “She was in my driveway. But when we were interacting, I could tell by the stuff she was saying that she’s not all there in the head — which makes me feel bad for her. At the same time, most people who go on killing sprees are people who aren’t all there in the head.”
