A double murder suspect has been arrested in connection with the fatal Compton-area shooting of a 25-year-old father and his 2-year-old daughter in 2001, authorities said Friday.
One of the shootings left a young father and his 2-year-old daughter dead. Investigators say they were both shot during an ongoing gang war they had nothing to do with.of a 25-year-old father and his 2-year-old daughter in 2001, authorities said Friday.
The identity of the suspect was not immediately released by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, which announced the arrest in a news release. A sheriff's lieutenant is expected to provide more information about developments in the case at a Friday morning news conference. The innocent victims, Stephen Murphy and his daughter Kali Murphy, were gunned down in the 13100 block of Willowbrook Avenue on Aug. 8, 2001.
Investigators said they were simply in the wrong place at the wrong time amid a spree of gang violence that was prompted by the fatal shooting of a 22-year-old man in Compton the previous night.Copyright © 2023 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.
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