'BAD, VIOLENT' MAN RECEIVES PRISON TERM.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - A reputed white supremacist white supremacist n. One who believes that white people are racially superior to others and should therefore dominate society. white supremacy n. Noun 1. has been sentenced to more than 34 years in prison for a high-speed pursuit in which he shot at deputies from a stolen car. Brian Tobias, 27, of Lancaster was found guilty of charges including exhibiting a deadly weapon deadly weapon n. any weapon which can kill. This includes not only weapons which are intended to do harm like a gun or knife, but also blunt instruments like clubs, baseball bats, monkey wrenches, an automobile or any object which actually causes death. to a police officer to resist arrest, but jurors deadlocked 11-1 in favor of guilty on two counts of attempted murder In the criminal law, attempted murder is committed when the defendant does an act that is more than merely preparatory to the commission of the crime of murder and, at the time of these acts, the person has a specific intention to kill. of a peace officer. ``Another bad, violent guy has been taken off the streets,'' Deputy District Attorney Hayden Zacky said. Tobias will be tried again on the charges that he attempted to murder sheriff's deputies by shooting at them during the July 3, 2003, chase. He was convicted of evading an officer and shooting at an occupied vehicle, and he was found guilty of kidnapping and falsely imprisoning a hostage - a woman passenger whom prosecutors said Tobias dragged out of the car by her hair and used as a human shield human shield Forensic medicine A person used to protect a kidnapper, terrorist, or combatant from gunfire while putting a gun to her head. Tobias also is awaiting trial in a drive-by shooting drive-by shooting Public health A phenomenon in which one or more persons–commonly members of street gangs, open fire à la Al Capone from moving vehicles, often in retaliation for an alleged wrong-doing by a rival gang of an African- American man in Lancaster the day before the high-speed chase. A 31-year-old African-American man was critically wounded as he walked near 35th Street West and Avenue K-8. Tobias and Michael Kelly This could refer to:
Prosecutors said Tobias set off the chase the next day after the drive-by shooting when a sheriff's deputy tried to pull him over in a stolen 1984 Honda. Other deputies joined in the 10-mile chase from Palmdale into the desert west of Lake Los Angeles. Deputies captured Tobias and freed the woman passenger unharmed. Kelly was arrested a week later after a nine-hour standoff with sheriff's deputies at a house in Quartz Hill. Karen Maeshiro, (661) 267-5744 karen.maeshiro(at)dailynews.com |
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