RANDY ECONOMY: MY WORLD: Death Penalty issued in Murder Case of Cerritos community leaders Lamar and Ernestine Matthews

Saturday, January 16, 2010

Death Penalty issued in Murder Case of Cerritos community leaders Lamar and Ernestine Matthews

BREAKING NEWS IN CERRITOS MURDER CASE!

By: Randy Economy
http://www.economy4abc.blogspot.com/

NORWALK - Justice has been served in a murder case that shocked Cerritos back in 2004.

Anthony Deondrea Cain, 34, of Carson, was convicted in October 2009 on all counts for the 2004 murders of Lamar and Ernestine Matthews, both 75, of Cerritos.

On Friday, he was given the Death Penalty for these two bloody murders in a Norwalk Superior Court Room.

Cain, was 28 at the time of the murders, became the primary suspect when investigators discovered he had cashed a $6,000 check from the Matthews' bank account the day before they were stabbed to death.

Investigators learned that the Matthews had helped Cain by lending them money and other assistance several times prior to their slaying and the death.

This is the first time in Cerritos history that someone will be put to death for a murder that was committed here.

The Matthews were very well respected community leaders here in our community. They had worked their entire lives with at-risk youths in Compton, where they also lived prior to moving to Cerritos.

Ernestine taught in the Compton Unified School District and Lamar was a probation officer, and both were extremely active philanthropists.

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Was this Death Penalty justified?
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