Retired nurse stabbed 17 times in 2018 death at Rolling Hills Estates mall

A 45-year-old woman on Monday, July 1, was ordered to stand trial on murder and robbery charges concerning the stabbing death of a retired nurse in the parking structure of a Rolling Hills Estates mall in 2018 by a judge who ruled prosecutors had presented enough evidence against her during a four-day hearing in Torrance Superior Court.

After prosecutors presented a mostly circumstantial case against Cherie Lynnette Townsend, Judge Alan B. Honeycutt ruled the case could move forward.

Townsend’s public defender...