February 18
CALIFORNIA:
DA: Gang Member Charged With Triple Murder At Torrance Bowling Alley
A 47-year-old man has been charged with killing 3 men at a bowling alley in
Torrance last month.
Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney John Chang said Reginald Leander Wallace,
of Los Angeles, is charged with opening fire at Gable House Bowl, located in
the 22000 block of Hawthorne Blvd., on Jan. 4.
Victims Michael Radford, 20, Astin Edwards, 28, and Robert Meekins, 28, were
killed.
Reginald Leander Wallace, of Los Angeles, is charged with opening fire at Gable
House Bowl, located in the 22000 block of Hawthorne Blvd., on Jan. 4.
Wallace faces 3 counts of murder, 4 counts of attempted murder and 1 count of
possession of a firearm by a felon.
The charges announced by the D.A.’s office Friday include special circumstance
allegations of multiple murders and killing to further the activities of a
criminal street gang as well as allegations of using a handgun which caused
great bodily injury and death.
The criminal complaint alleges Wallace was convicted as a juvenile in 1989 of
1st-degree murder and that he was convicted as an adult of bringing or
possessing a gun within a school zone in 1997 and assault with a firearm in
1998.
Wallace’s arraignment is scheduled for Tuesday.
He is being held without bail. If convicted as charged, Wallace faces death or
life in prison without the possibility of parole. A decision on whether to seek
the death penalty will be made a later date.
The case remains under investigation by the Torrance Police Department.
(source: CBS news)
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Brothers charged with killing missing teen could face death penalty
2 brothers could be facing the death penalty after being charged in connection
with the murder of a 16-year-old girl who has been missing in Southern
California since last month.
Owen Shover, 18, and his brother, Gary Shover, 21, were returned to custody
last Friday after being formally refused bail.
Authorities allege the brothers killed Aranda Briones after she was last seen
alive on January 13.
Prosecutors have filed a special circumstance allegation of “lying in wait”
against both defendants - the act of hiding and waiting for an individual with
the intent to kill that person - making them eligible for the death penalty if
convicted.
The sheriff’s office said the brothers became early suspects in the
investigation after the victim’s family painted them as potential people of
interest to law enforcement.
The victim and Owen Shover were high school friends who had recently
reconnected.
Owen was the last person to be seen with Briones.
He told sheriffs he had not seen Briones since he dropped her at a park where
he saw her get into another vehicle the day she disappeared.
However, a police review of surveillance in the area didn’t corroborate
Shover’s story.
“We destroyed the timeline of events that he gave us and replaced it with what
we knew to be true based on video surveillance footage,” he told ABC News.
Riverside County Sheriff's Deputy Michael Vasquez said the homicide squad and
FBI joined the investigation on January 20.
Gary and Owen Shover were arrested after a raid of their home on February 11.
The sheriff’s office said it had collected evidence indicating Briones was
killed, but did not give specifics of what had been located.
Investigations continue with the sheriff’s office calling for the public’s help
in locating her remains.
“We still don’t have a body,” said Vasquez. “We still don’t know where she is.”
The brothers will appear before the courts on March 1.
(source: 9news.com.au)
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