#Compton courthouse photos trial#

1, 2020, then using the stolen Mercedes Benz while he committed a pair of shootings that seriously injured three people, including the two deputies, after Murray’s best friend, Sam Herrera, was shot and killed by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies while they served a search warrant at Herrera’s house on Sept. Prosecutors accused Murray of carjacking a man, Andrew Harris, and shooting him in the leg with a rifle on Sept. Wednesday’s closing arguments were heard in Long Beach Superior Court to avoid further delay.

#Compton courthouse photos trial#

The trial included testimony from 43 witnesses. Jurors were handed the case for deliberations after a nearly two-month trial, which was delayed multiple times due to COVID-19 and this week due to a power outage at the Compton Courthouse. Murray “admitted to countless people about what he did and how proud he was,” Lonseth said. Prosecutor Stephen Lonseth disagreed and told jurors Murray shot four people, with intent on killing three of them, over a two-week span. His decision to shoot was an “impulsive, rash decision fueled by grief, drugs, alcohol and heartbreak” and someone not really in their right mental state, Hardie said. 20.ĭeonte Lee Murray, 39, drank alcohol and used drugs to numb his grief in the days leading up to the shooting of deputies Claudia Apolinar and Emmanuel Perez-Perez on Sept. A man accused of shooting and seriously wounding two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies as they sat in their patrol SUV at the Compton Metro Station three years ago made rash decisions while drinking heavily and using methamphetamine following the death of his best friend days prior, a defense attorney said during closing arguments in the man’s trial Wednesday, Sept.