Emmy-Winning Producer Wanted for Allegedly Stabbing Roommate Over Oscar Prediction

Andre Bauth issued with warrant after Tuesday incident in Studio City

attends The 42nd Annual Daytime Emmy Awards at Warner Bros. Studios on April 26, 2015 in Burbank, California.
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A producer who won a Daytime Emmy earlier this year is wanted by police on charges of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon after allegedly stabbing his roommate, the Los Angeles Times reports.

Andre Salaman Bautista, who works under the name Andre Bauth, allegedly stabbed his roommate, actor Clayton Haymes, in Studio City on Tuesday after they got into an argument about the Oscars.

In an interview with CBS Los Angeles, Haymes, 23, said that Bautista bragged that he would someday win five Oscars and became “upset” when his claim was scoffed at.

“When he said ‘five Oscars,’ we all kind of laughed a little bit, and he got really upset,” Haymes said.

Bautista, who won a Daytime Emmy for his producing work on the online soap opera “The Bay,” then allegedly stabbed Haymes with a kitchen knife before fleeing the scene.

A spokesman for the Los Angeles Police Department told TheWrap that a warrant has been issued, and that the alleged stabbing took place Tuesday at approximately 2:53 a.m.

Police believe that Bautista is going to turn himself in, the spokesman added.

An actor as well as a producer, Bautista appears with Haymes in the upcoming film “El Landlord,” which Bauth also produced.

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