Deonte Lee Murray, 39, was found guilty of a crime spree that included the ambush-style shooting of two Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department deputies back in Sept. 2020.
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Murray is facing a potential life prison term, according to Deputy District Attorney Stephen Lonseth. Sentencing is tentatively scheduled for Oct. 16 in a Compton courtroom. "They're alive because of frankly a miracle," Lonseth said, citing the"heroic actions" of Apolinar in trying to aid her partner despite being wounded herself in the jaw and arms.
Ballistics testing subsequently determined that the .40-caliber weapon had been used to shoot the sheriff's deputies, authorities said. She told the panel that they had heard about evidence of Murray's intoxication from six separate sources, saying that and his mental state negate both premeditation and intent to kill involving the attempted murder charges.
But she told jurors that the defense was contesting other charges against him, including the attempted murder counts involving the deputies and the carjacking and robbery counts involving the first shooting victim named in the assault count.
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