2 MEN GET LIFE TERMS.Byline: Jeannette DeSantis Daily News Staff Writer For the friends of 16-year-old Ramtin Shaolian, who was fatally fa·tal·ly adv. 1. So as to cause death; mortally: fatally injured. 2. So as to result in disaster or ruin. 3. According to the decree of fate; inevitably. Adv. 1. shot last year at the Fallbrook Mall, the sentencing of two 20-year-old gang members to multiple life sentences closes a painful chapter in their lives. Tommy Lee This article is about the American drummer Tommy Lee. For other uses, see Tommy.
Tommy Lee (born Thomas Lee Bass on October 3, 1962), is a Greek American rock musician. Williams and Elliott O'Neal Singletary, convicted of wildly opening fire on Shaolian and his friends June 9, 1995, were sentenced in Van Nuys Superior Court on Tuesday, and Shaolian's buddies See buddy list. remembered a friend. ``They killed Ramtin that night but they also killed a lot of other things that night,'' said Medei Sina, who was also hit by a bullet the night his friend was killed. ``They killed a part of my family, they killed the trust I had and they killed a part of Ramtin's parents.'' Medei Sina, and his brother Reza Sina, were injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. in the shooting, which occurred after a verbal confrontation between Williams and another one of the youths earlier that evening. ``This whole thing made me a lot stronger though,'' said Medei Sina, now 18. ``I'm able to deal with difficult things that I didn't know I could deal with before. When someone close to you dies, you build up a tougher outer skin and things don't bother you as much anymore.'' In August, a jury found Singletary and Williams guilty of murdering Shaolian as he walked with five friends behind the movie theater at the Fallbrook Mall, after less than four hours of deliberations. Prosecutors said Shaolian was killed after his friends got into a verbal confrontation with Singletary, who was out with Williams and four high school girls High School Girls (女子高生 Joshi Kōsei for a night of cruising and drinking. Testimony from two of those girls revealed that a fight broke out at a pay phone outside the theater when Singletary asked the youths, ``Where you from?'' and one of them replied, ``Do you think we look like gangbangers?'' Singletary then jumped into a car with Williams and the four girls, hunted down the group of youths later in the rear of the Fallbrook Mall and wildly shot nine rounds into the crowd, hitting Shaolian and the Sina brothers and shouting, ``Well you are gangbangers now!'' On Tuesday, Van Nuys Superior Court Judge Sandy Kriegler sentenced Williams to life in prison without the possibility of parole parole (pərōl`), in criminal law, release from prison of a convict before the expiration of his term on condition that his activities be restricted and that he report regularly to an officer. for first-degree murder with the special circumstance Circumstance or circumstances can refer to:
Singletary was sentenced to 26 years to life in prison for the murder charge and given five life sentences for the attempted, premeditated murder convictions. Those concurrent sentences will run consecutive to the 26-years-to-life sentence. CAPTION(S): 2 Photos PHOTO (1) Tommy Lee Williams: Sentenced to life in priso n. (2) Elliott O'Neal Singletary: Gets 26 years to life in prison. Boris Yaro/Pool |
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