The two deputies were injured in the shooting on Sept. 12, 2020.
COMPTON — An ex-con was found guilty Thursday of a crime spree that included theof two Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies who were wounded while sitting in their patrol vehicle just over three years ago.
The prosecutor told the jury that Murray shot four people and tried to kill three of them, including the two sheriff’s deputies whom he allegedly tried to ambush in what the prosecutor said was “no impulse.” The prosecutor had told jurors during his opening statement in August that Murray “lost it” and “sought to take out revenge” after sheriff’s deputies shot and killed his best friend, Sam Herrera, while serving a search warrant in Compton on Sept. 10, 2020, two days before Apolinar and Perez-Perez were ambushed.
Murray’s attorney, Kate Hardie, told jurors that her client was under the influence of drugs and alcohol and grief-stricken over his best friend’s shooting death by other sheriff’s deputies two days earlier. Hardie accused the prosecutor of trying to sway the jurors’ emotions by arguing that it would have been a murder case if it wasn’t for Apolinar’s actions.
The defense lawyer told jurors that the defense was “not asking you … to let him go,” but was asking them to “follow the law.”
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