Image via WikipediaLONG BEACH – Jurors have convicted one of two men indicted for the murders of two teens fatally shot during a birthday celebration at the Lakewood Masonic Lodge.Deputy District Attorney Emily Spear of the Long Beach Branch Office said Izac McCloud, 19, was found guilty of two counts of second-degree murder. Jurors, who deliberated for nearly five days, additionally convicted McCloud of 46 counts of assault with a firearm.
Jurors found true allegations that the defendant personally and intentionally discharged a firearm causing great bodily injury and death to victims Breon Taylor, 15, and Dennis Moses, 17. Allegations of personal use of a firearm also were found true. A special circumstance allegation of multiple murders was found not true.
Judge Mark Kim said McCloud would be sentenced on Oct. 7 in Department C of Long Beach Superior Court. He faces a maximum prison term of more than 200 years to life. A separate jury continues to deliberate on the fate of co-defendant Jonzel Stringer, 22.
On Jan. 19, 2008, more than 400 people showed up at a birthday celebration for twin brothers, after information about the party was posted on an Internet Web site. The Lakewood Masonic Lodge holds only about 100 people and the party was closed when a capacity crowd was reached, authorities said.
Stringer allegedly got into a fight inside of the lodge, came outside, and purportedly told McCloud to shoot. Standing just outside a window, McCloud fired a 9-mm semiautomatic handgun 10 times at partygoers inside, the prosecutor said. Moses and Taylor, both of whom were shot in the head, were killed and one other teenager was shot in the leg but survived.
Long Beach police arrested the defendants a short time after the murders. Immediately following the incident, police conducted interviews at the scene with 428 partygoers, the prosecutor said.
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