Man sentenced to life for double homicide

A 17-year-old Los Angeles man convicted in a double homicide was sentenced Sept. 4, 2008, to state prison, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.

A Los Angeles Superior Court judge sentenced Evan Joel Alfred to two years in state prison, plus life without the possibility of parole, plus 25 years to life.

On June 9, Alfred pleaded guilty to two counts of murder with special circumstances, one count of second-degree robbery and one count of attempting to dissuade a witness in the 2007 shooting deaths of Malone Scales and Danny Horn.

Alfred shot and killed Scales and Horn, both 20-year-old black men, on June 25, 2007, on East 84th Place between Stanford Avenue and Avalon Boulevard in Florence.

Seated in the back seat of a Cadillac, Alfred shot the driver, Horn, in the head and shot Scales, the front-seat passenger, multiple times in the head and torso. Prosecutors said that the attack was seemingly motivated by the $1,000 in cash carried by Horn and the opportunity of taking the vehicle.

Alfred was arrested hours later by officers of LAPD’s 77th Street Division.

-- Maloy Moore