Image via WikipediaLONG BEACH – Jurors have convicted a second man in the murders of two teens fatally shot during a 2008 birthday celebration at the Lakewood Masonic Lodge.Deputy District Attorney Emily Spear of the Long Beach Branch Office said Jonzel Latrel Stringer, 22, was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and 46 counts of attempted murder.
Jurors, who deliberated for seven days, found true an allegation that a principal was armed during the commission of the crimes. An allegation that the attempted murders were willful, deliberate and premeditated was found not true.
Long Beach Superior Court Judge Mark Kim indicated that Stringer would be sentenced on Nov. 16. He faces a maximum sentence of 198 years to life in state prison.
Co-defendant Izac McCloud, 19, was convicted by a separate jury on Sept. 16. Jurors found him guilty of two counts of second-degree murder and 46 counts of assault with a firearm. McCloud is due to be sentenced on Oct. 7. He faces a maximum prison term of more than 202 years to life.
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.
Stringer got into a fight inside of the lodge, came outside, and told McCloud to shoot, the prosecutor said. Standing just outside a window, McCloud fired a 9-mm semiautomatic handgun 10 times at partygoers inside.
Breon Taylor, 15, and Dennis Moses, 17 were shot in the head and killed. One other teenager was shot in the leg but survived.
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