Three found guilty in Lancaster shooting
Three men were found guilty April 3, 2014, on second-degree murder in connection with the 2012 shooting death of a 21-year-old black man, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney’s office.
A jury deliberated for 12 hours before finding Randy “Bam” Sullivan, 36; Joshua Lockett, 21; and Terrell Henderson, 22, guilty of second-degree murder.
Brandy Houston was shot multiple times Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012, in the 43000 block of Gadsen Avenue in Lancaster, according to Los Angeles County coroner's records.
An argument that morning between the victim and the three defendants escalated that afternoon into a street brawl, when the three defendants returned to Gadsen Avenue with two other men.
During the melee, which involved about a dozen people, one of the men who arrived with the defendants walked up to Houston and shot him 12 times.
Houston was taken to a hospital where he was pronounced dead at 1:30 p.m.
Sullivan, Lockett and Henderson are expected back in court for sentencing May 9.
According to Deputy L.A. County Dist Atty. Jon Hatami, the two men brought to the scene by the defendants are still at large.
-- Maloy Moore and Robert J. Lopez
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