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The suspect in the murder of former Netflix staffer and ARRAY consultant Michael Latt earlier this week has been revealed by the LAPD, as has the victim himself.
The police say Jameelah Elena Michl was arrested on Latts’ doorstep soon after the 6 p.m. fatal shooting of the veteran studio operative and activist at his mid-Wilshire home on November 27. Apparently living nearby in her car, the homeless woman had invaded the residence of Latt and his girlfriend on Monday evening. She did not make any effort to leave the scene of the crime, law enforcement officials confirmed.
Still investigating the murder of 33-year-old Latt, the LAPD tells Deadline no motive for the killing has emerged as of yet. Arrested by officers from Wilshire division, Michl is in custody on bail of $3 million.
Latt’s mother, Michelle Satter founded the Sundance Institute Directors and Screenwriters Lab in 1981. Awarded the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences back in June for a ceremony early next year, Satter took to social media this morning to mourn her child:
Having formed social impact group Lead with Love in 2019, Latt was also the communications director and political advisor for Oscar winner and John Wick star Common’s nonprofit Imagine Justice from late 2016 to mid-2021.
A manager at Netflix from April 2021 to November of that year, Latt served as a consultant for Ava DuVernay’s ARRAY Now, Warner Bros Pictures’ Multicultural Marketing Department, and Annapurna Pictures’ If Beale Street Could Talk over the past few years. Before that, as well as working for the Sundance Institute as a digital content producer and marketing advisor from 2014 to 2018, Latt put in time in the marketing departments of the Campaign for Black Male Achievement, Magnolia Pictures’ James Baldwin fueled 2016 documentary I Am Not Your Negro, Fox Searchlight’s Birth of A Nation from Nate Parker, Sony and the Weinstein Company.
As more information about Latt’s murder became known in the past 24 hours, Black List found Franklin Leonard paid tribute to his friend Wednesday morning on social media:
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