SUSPECT DIES IN JAIL WARD : COMPOSER FACED TRIAL IN SLAYINGS.Byline: Jaxon Van Derbeken Daily News Staff Writer A one-time Motown songwriter - jailed in the slayings of a Chicago woman and a Woodland Hills man who befriended him - has died of apparently natural causes, officials said Wednesday. Jack Alan Goga, 52, died at 12:13 p.m. Tuesday while being treated in the jail ward of the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County/University of Southern California Southern California, also colloquially known as SoCal, is the southern portion of the U.S. state of California. Centered on the cities of Los Angeles and San Diego, Southern California is home to nearly 24 million people and is the nation's second most populated region, Medical Center, where he had been hospitalized since mid-March after suffering what officials described as a diabetic diabetic /di·a·bet·ic/ (-bet´ik) 1. pertaining to or affected with diabetes. 2. a person with diabetes. di·a·bet·ic adj. 1. seizure Forcible possession; a grasping, snatching, or putting in possession. In Criminal Law, a seizure is the forcible taking of property by a government law enforcement official from a person who is suspected of violating, or is known to have violated, the law. . An autopsy will be conducted, said Los Angeles coroner's spokesman Scott Carrier Scott Carrier is an American author and radio producer. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah. Written work
Goga was arrested in Michigan in December 1994 on suspicion of murdering Charles ``Chick'' Evans, 60, of Woodland Hills and Digna Adames, 25, originally from Chicago. He spent more than a year jailed in Michigan before being extradited last year to Los Angeles, where the killings occurred. Evans' body was found Dec. 7, 1994, inside his Del Valle Street home. Police said that Evans gave Goga a place to stay - but then tried to kick him out, triggering the shooting. Goga admitted killing Adames when she wanted to return to Chicago, and killing Evans after conflict about Evans' smoking and the eviction The removal of a tenant from possession of premises in which he or she resides or has a property interest done by a landlord either by reentry upon the premises or through a court action. attempt, said Detective Larry Dolley of the LAPD's West Valley Division. The body of Adames was found June 14, 1994, near Castaic. She had accompanied Goga from Michigan to Los Angeles in hopes that he could use his music-industry connections to get a recording contract. Adames left behind a 7-year-old son, being raised by her mother in Chicago. Goga wrote at least one song for Motown, ``Yesterday's Dream,'' recorded by the Four Tops. His attorney, Deputy Public Defender public defender, governmental official who represents indigent persons accused of crime. U.S. Supreme Court decisions expanding the right to counsel to pretrial proceedings and holding that a person cannot be sentenced to even one day in jail unless a lawyer was Dennis Cohen cohen or kohen (Hebrew: “priest”) Jewish priest descended from Zadok (a descendant of Aaron), priest at the First Temple of Jerusalem. The biblical priesthood was hereditary and male. , said Wednesday that his client's death has not been fully explained. ``It's a mystery to me,'' Cohen said. He noted that Goga had regained consciousness 11 days after he was hospitalized. ``Here Mr. Goga regained consciousness, and five days later, he's dead. I'm going to try to find out, if I can, why.'' The death left the Adames family without the answers they hoped a trial would provide. ``It's like everything coming back,'' said Adames' mother, Rosalia Diaz. ``I don't feel happy about him being dead. I feel confused about this. I love my daughter. It's like everything coming back. She was my baby.'' |
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