Deonte Murray was sentenced to 166 years in prison for seriously injuring two L.A. County sheriff's deputies when he shot them at point-blank range in 2020.
A man who said he shot two sheriff's deputies at point-blank range while seeking revenge for a friend killed by police was sentenced to 166 years in prison Wednesday, prosecutors said. Deonte Murray, 39, was convicted in September on multiple counts of attempted murder, assault, robbery and carjacking for an 11-day string of crimes that culminated when he walked up to an L.A. County Sheriff's Department cruiser parked outside a Compton train station and opened fire.
Police recovered a small cache of firearms in Herrera's garage, and neither of the deputies that Murray shot were involved in Herrera's killing. Murray's attorney, Kate Hardie, said her client was in a grief-stricken rage after Herrera's death and acting irrationally. He was living out of his car and operating in 'a blur' of cognac and methamphetamine, she said.
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