LOS ANGELES (AP) ― A jury has recommended a death sentence for a Los Angeles gang leader convicted of three murders and trying to kill two police officers.
The jury reached its decision Wednesday against Timothy McGhee in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
McGhee was convicted last November of murdering two rival gang
members and a woman -- in 1997, 2000 and 2001.
He was also found guilty of four attempted murders.
A separate jury convicted McGhee but deadlocked on his punishment.
Police say McGhee was the highest ranking gang member in the Atwater Village neighborhood.
He was on the U.S. Marshals Service's most-wanted list before he was arrested in 2003 in Arizona.
He will be sentenced Nov. 21.
Fucken Eskimo, i knew this fool.............
OLD NEWS:::
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 13, 2003
Contact: United States Marshals Service/Los Angeles Regional Fugitive Task Force
(213) 894-1854
U.S. MARSHALS'15 MOST WANTED FUGITIVE
APPREHENDED IN ARIZONA
Timothy Joseph McGhee, a northeast Los Angeles gang leader wanted by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in connection with as many as a dozen killings, and one of the United States Marshals Service 15 Most Wanted fugitives, was arrested earlier today in Bullhead City, Arizona.
McGhee, age 29, had been charged by the Marshals Service with the federal offense of Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution. The federal charges are based on McGhee's efforts to elude capture and prosecution in connection with an arrest warrant that was issued in June, 2000 charging him with the murder of 16-year-old Ryan Gonzales. McGhee allegedly killed Gonzales simply because Gonzales happened to share the same nickname that McGhee uses. McGhee is also a suspect in a string of brutal murders that have been committed since then, including the murder of a 17-year-old boy who was sketching a picture at the Los Angeles River near the gang's stronghold in Atwater Village and a young mother of two who was killed because of the type of vehicle that she was driving.
Investigators familiar with the investigation believe that McGhee continued to influence the activities of the Toonerville gang while he was on the run, and was still involved in their criminal enterprises which include drug trafficking, firearms violations, and other offenses, including the use of murder and threats of violence to dissuade rival gang members, potential witnesses and unsuspecting citizens.
On the afternoon of February 12, 2003, investigators from the Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force and Deputy United States Marshals from the Districts of Nevada and Arizona developed information that McGhee was possibly residing in an apartment complex on Ramar Street in Bullhead City. Follow-up investigation led to a second residence on Brill Street in Bullhead City that was also known to be associated with McGhee.
After approximately 20 hours of surveillance at both locations, investigators observed McGhee come out of the residence on Brill Street and get into a vehicle driven by a female associate. Investigators maintained surveillance of the vehicle until marked units from the Bullhead City Police Department were in place to effect a felony vehicle stop. McGhee offered no resistance and was taken into custody without incident. He was booked at the Mohave County Jail in Kingman, Arizona pending extradition to Los Angeles.
The jury reached its decision Wednesday against Timothy McGhee in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
McGhee was convicted last November of murdering two rival gang
members and a woman -- in 1997, 2000 and 2001.
He was also found guilty of four attempted murders.
A separate jury convicted McGhee but deadlocked on his punishment.
Police say McGhee was the highest ranking gang member in the Atwater Village neighborhood.
He was on the U.S. Marshals Service's most-wanted list before he was arrested in 2003 in Arizona.
He will be sentenced Nov. 21.
Fucken Eskimo, i knew this fool.............
OLD NEWS:::
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
February 13, 2003
Contact: United States Marshals Service/Los Angeles Regional Fugitive Task Force
(213) 894-1854
U.S. MARSHALS'15 MOST WANTED FUGITIVE
APPREHENDED IN ARIZONA
Timothy Joseph McGhee, a northeast Los Angeles gang leader wanted by the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) in connection with as many as a dozen killings, and one of the United States Marshals Service 15 Most Wanted fugitives, was arrested earlier today in Bullhead City, Arizona.
McGhee, age 29, had been charged by the Marshals Service with the federal offense of Unlawful Flight to Avoid Prosecution. The federal charges are based on McGhee's efforts to elude capture and prosecution in connection with an arrest warrant that was issued in June, 2000 charging him with the murder of 16-year-old Ryan Gonzales. McGhee allegedly killed Gonzales simply because Gonzales happened to share the same nickname that McGhee uses. McGhee is also a suspect in a string of brutal murders that have been committed since then, including the murder of a 17-year-old boy who was sketching a picture at the Los Angeles River near the gang's stronghold in Atwater Village and a young mother of two who was killed because of the type of vehicle that she was driving.
Investigators familiar with the investigation believe that McGhee continued to influence the activities of the Toonerville gang while he was on the run, and was still involved in their criminal enterprises which include drug trafficking, firearms violations, and other offenses, including the use of murder and threats of violence to dissuade rival gang members, potential witnesses and unsuspecting citizens.
On the afternoon of February 12, 2003, investigators from the Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force and Deputy United States Marshals from the Districts of Nevada and Arizona developed information that McGhee was possibly residing in an apartment complex on Ramar Street in Bullhead City. Follow-up investigation led to a second residence on Brill Street in Bullhead City that was also known to be associated with McGhee.
After approximately 20 hours of surveillance at both locations, investigators observed McGhee come out of the residence on Brill Street and get into a vehicle driven by a female associate. Investigators maintained surveillance of the vehicle until marked units from the Bullhead City Police Department were in place to effect a felony vehicle stop. McGhee offered no resistance and was taken into custody without incident. He was booked at the Mohave County Jail in Kingman, Arizona pending extradition to Los Angeles.
