An ex-con convicted of carrying out a 2020 crime spree that included the ambush-style shooting that left two Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies wounded in their patrol vehicle outside a Compton transit center was sentenced Wednesday to 166 years and eight months to life in prison.
Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Connie R. Quinones imposed the maximum sentence on Deonte Lee Murray, citing the 'heinous and callous nature of the crimes' committed by the defendant during his September 2020 crime spree.'You creeped up on them,' the judge told the defendant about the Sept. 12, 2020, attack on Deputies Claudia Apolinar and Emmanuel Perez-Perez outside a Compton transit center. 'It's all caught on video ... Luckily they both survived.
10, 2020, then driving away in a black Mercedes-Benz that had been carjacked nine days earlier from a man who was shot in the leg with a rifle, Lonseth told the panel.The defendant -- who allegedly abandoned the Mercedes-Benz near an elementary school -- was arrested Sept.
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