A homeless man was charged Wednesday with attempted murder and other counts stemming from the beating of a 70-year-old Sikh man with a golf club during an argument in North Hollywood.

Bo Richard Vitagliano, 44, was arrested Monday night in connection with the assault that occurred Aug. 4 in the 7500 block of Lankershim Boulevard in North Hollywood, according to Los Angeles Police Department Chief Jim McDonnell.

Vitagliano was charged Wednesday with attempted murder, elder or dependent adult abuse and assault with at deadly weapon. The charges include allegations of causing great bodily injury, brain injury and an attacking an elderly victim. The charges do not include hate crime allegations.

Vitagliano, who was arrested near Lankershim and Arminta Street in North Hollywood, was being he

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