HEARING STARTS IN FATAL ROBBERIES\Proceeding will decide if pair must stand trial in 1993 killings.Byline: Anne Burke Daily News Staff Writer Prosecutors went to court Tuesday to begin laying out their case against an ex-high school basketball star and a second man charged in a series of deadly follow-home robberies in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . The preliminary hearing in San Fernando San Fernando, city, Argentina San Fernando (săn fərnăn`dō), city (1991 pop. 144,761), Buenos Aires prov., E Argentina. It is a district administrative center in the Greater Buenos Aires area. Municipal Court will decide whether Faith Baptist High School athlete Etienne Michael Moore  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. and LaCedrick Johnson should stand trial on charges of murder, conspiracy and robbery in the 2-1/2-year-old crimes. The hearing could last as long as three weeks. Moore, 21, and Johnson, 20, have pleaded not guilty in the Aug. 31, 1993, slaying of Bahman Taheri, 53, and the killing of Laurie Myles, 38, two weeks later. Moore's and Johnson's arrests capped an intense, two-year investigation that eventually linked three, apparently unrelated homicides and a string of robberies in the San Fernando Valley. Prosecutors claim Myles and Taheri were killed as part of a six-month crime spree that ended in November 1993. Authorities allege members of a robbery ring followed home lone motorists to darkened dark·en v. dark·ened, dark·en·ing, dark·ens v.tr. 1. a. To make dark or darker. b. To give a darker hue to. 2. To fill with sadness; make gloomy. 3. residential streets. Three people were wounded in the robberies. Moore and Johnson each face eight counts plus special circumstances special circumstances n. in criminal cases, particularly homicides, actions of the accused or the situation under which the crime was committed for which state statutes allow or require imposition of a more severe punishment. that carry a possible death penalty. Prosecutors have not announced whether they will seek the death penalty. Moore, Johnson and a third defendant, Shashonee Monette Solomon, 32, also face murder charges with special circumstances in a third homicide - the execution-style shooting of Talin Kara Kara (kär`ə), river, c.140 mi (230 km) long, NE European and NW Siberian Russia. It flows N from the N Urals into the Kara Sea, forming part of the traditional border between European and Asian Russia. It is navigable in its lower course. Tarkhanian, 20. Prosecutors contend Moore and Johnson shot Tarkhanian at the request of Solomon. Tarkhanian had broken off a romantic relationship with Solomon. Tarkhanian worked at the News-Express, a distribution advertising network that was owned by the Daily News. Her body was found Oct. 31, 1993, in her sports car in the Brown's Canyon area near the Simi Valley-San Fernando Valley Freeway. Myles, a mother of three, was fatally shot Sept. 15, 1993, even as she complied with the demands of a robber who assaulted her while she sat in her car waiting to pick up her daughter from Bible study Bible study may refer to:
Myles' 9-year-old son witnessed the killing. Taheri was shot in the head after a robber confronted him as he and his girlfriend sat in his car on Burbank Boulevard in Encino, according to Deputy District Attorney Janice L. Maurizi. The robber - who prosecutors identified as Moore - forced Taheri out of his car, demanded money, then fired when Taheri resisted, Maurizi said. On Tuesday, prosecutors charged a fourth suspect in connection with the case. An 18-year-old man faces conspiracy, robbery, attempted murder and assault charges. He is being tried in juvenile court juvenile court Special court handling problems of delinquent, neglected, or abused children. Two types of cases are processed by a juvenile court: civil matters, often concerning care of an abandoned or impoverished child, and criminal matters, arising from antisocial because he was a minor at the time of the crimes. Moore was paroled from prison after serving a two-year sentence for robbery in connection with a case involving the gunshot wounding of an off-duty, Baldwin Park police officer. Solomon was imprisoned im·pris·on tr.v. im·pris·oned, im·pris·on·ing, im·pris·ons To put in or as if in prison; confine. [Middle English emprisonen, from Old French emprisoner : en- after he fired a .357-caliber Magnum at the floor near Tarkhanian's feet at the News-Express. CAPTION(S): PHOTO LaCedrick Johnson, left, and Etienne Moore attend a preliminary hearing regarding 2 follow-home slayings. Michael Owen Baker/Daily News |
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