TEEN FACES LIFE FOR SLAYING.Byline: Karen Maeshiro Staff Writer LANCASTER - A teenager suspected in a home-invasion robbery spree in which an accomplice accomplice: see accessory. was shot and killed by a sheriff's deputy has become the second person charged with murder for a deadly attempted carjacking The criminal taking of a motor vehicle from its driver by force, violence, or intimidation. The u.s. justice department categorizes the crime of carjacking as a "completed or attempted Robbery of a motor vehicle by a stranger an hour earlier. Kyrone Blakney, 17, of Lancaster has been charged with murder in the Aug. 22 shooting death of 68-year-old Ladd Franklin Schweitzer of Palmdale, who was shot after refusing to hand over his money to a gunman who had stopped his van on an isolated two-lane road. Blakney was charged as an adult under Proposition 21, which permits prosecutors to charge minors with serious offenses in adult court, without a judge's ruling, as had been required in the past. ``It fits the requirements. If you commit homicide and you're a certain age, we can direct file,'' Deputy District Attorney Carlos Chung said. ``It's a discretionary call.'' Prosecutors claim Blakney, co-defendant David Taylor David Taylor or Dave Taylor can be one of several persons: Sports people
Klingman was shot and killed by a deputy about an hour later after he pointed a pistol at deputies who were talking to Noun 1. talking to - a lengthy rebuke; "a good lecture was my father's idea of discipline"; "the teacher gave him a talking to" lecture, speech rebuke, reprehension, reprimand, reproof, reproval - an act or expression of criticism and censure; "he had to Taylor and Blakney, officials said. Klingman drove up after the other pair were arrested while walking along 15th Street East. A ballistics ballistics (bəlĭs`tĭks), science of projectiles. Interior ballistics deals with the propulsion and the motion of a projectile within a gun or firing device. test helped link the two crimes, officials said. Taylor is charged with murder with a special circumstance of committing a murder in the course of a carjacking, which makes him eligible for either the death penalty or life in prison without the possibility of parole. Taylor also is facing charges 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. and burglary in the two home-invasion robberies that occurred around midnight Aug. 23. The home invasions home invasion n. Burglary of a dwelling while the residents are at home. Noun 1. home invasion - burglary of a dwelling while the residents are at home left a homeowner and a concerned neighbor wounded. Blakney is charged with murder, with no special circumstance allegation, attempted murder, and burglary, Chung said. Schweitzer was shot shortly after 11 p.m. Aug. 22 as he tried to drive away from the would-be robber, who had parked a car to block traffic on 70th Street East near Avenue N, homicide investigators said. Schweitzer died at a hospital. The gunman fled without taking anything. |
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