Two men have been convicted for the murder of a good Samaritan on Halloween three years ago, prosecutors said Friday.
Diamonte McGhee of Canyon Country and Eric Edwards of Lancaster, both 20, were found guilty Thursday for one count each of first-degree murder and second-degree robbery, and four counts each of attempted murder and assault with a semiautomatic firearm, according to a news release from the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
The jury was unable to reach a verdict on a third defendant, Branden Trevaughn Higgs, who will return to court in early December.
On Oct. 31, 2011, Alejandro Sánchez-Tórrez, dubbed a good Samaritan, came to help a man being beaten and robbed by McGhee, Edwards and Higgs, authorities said.
McGhee then shot at the victim and shot and killed Sánchez-Tórrez in the chest, prosecutors said. The victim was struck by gunfire but survived.
McGhee was convicted of an additional count of assault with a semiautomatic firearm for a separate incident on Oct. 29, 2011.
McGhee and Edwards are scheduled to be sentenced early 2015. Because they were juveniles at the time of the crime, they face life in prison without the possibility of parole, prosecutors said.
