TEEN TO STAND TRIAL IN SLAYING OF LANCASTER ELECTRICIAN.Byline: Karen Karen Any member of a variety of tribal peoples of southern Myanmar (Burma). Constituting the second largest minority in Myanmar, the Karen are not a unitary group in any ethnic sense, as they differ among themselves linguistically, religiously, and economically. Maeshiro Daily News Staff Writer A 19-year-old former stock clerk has been ordered to stand trial in the August 1997 slaying of a Lancaster electrician who was found beaten and shot to death by his girlfriend in their apartment bedroom. Prosecutors have not established a clear motive motive or motif (mōtēf`), in music, a short phrase or passage of two or more notes and repeated or elaborated throughout the composition. The term is usually used synonymously with figure. for the killing of 21-year-old Ricky Cowles Jr. William Hoffman William Hoffman can refer to:
Prosecutors have charged Hoffman with a special allegation The assertion, claim, declaration, or statement of a party to an action, setting out what he or she expects to prove. If the allegations in a plaintiff's complaint are insufficient to establish that the person's legal rights have been violated, the defendant can make a of lying in wait, which makes him eligible for the death penalty. The decision on whether to seek the death penalty has not been made yet, Portillo said. Prosecutors said Hoffman waited at the victim's house, and when the man came home, Hoffman hit him with a hammer and shot him in the head. Hoffman, who was arrested in April, had told other people within days of Cowles' slaying that he had committed the crime, officials said. Those witnesses eventually told authorities. Hoffman has no prior record and before the slaying worked stocking shelves at a store in the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley , prosecutors said. Cowles, who worked in his father's electrical contracting business, and Hoffman knew each other and had mutual friends. Sheriff's deputies said the killer was waiting for Cowles inside his apartment in the 43400 block of Gadsden Avenue on Aug. 12. Cowles arrived shortly after 9 p.m., after working late fixing lights at the Antelope Valley fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. . His girlfriend arrived home an hour later and found him lying in their bedroom, shot in the head. Family members and detectives said nothing inside the home had been touched or taken and there was no obvious sign of forced entry. Investigators said drugs and gangs were not involved. With detectives stymied by a lack of cooperation of witnesses, the victim's family Victim's Family was a hardcore punk band formed in 1984 in Santa Rosa, California by bassist Larry Boothroyd and guitarist and vocalist Ralph Spight. Drummer Devon VrMeer completed the trio. in March offered a $10,000 reward to anyone giving information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or people who killed Cowles. Cowles' family distributed 3,500 fliers announcing the reward and placed two billboards along Avenue K near Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling in hopes that someone with information on his death would come forward. It was not known Friday whether the reward has been claimed. |
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