Jurors weighing life in prison or death penalty for Banning gang member who admitted murdering 5 people

Jurors weighing life in prison or death penalty for California gang member who admitted murdering 5 people

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Jurors weighing life in prison or death penalty for Banning gang member who admitted murdering 5 people

These facts are not in dispute: In a span of four years and nine months, gang member William Arnold Armendariz III shot to death five people in three separate attacks, including the slayings of three people at a Banning cemetery in August 2020 as they held a memorial birthday party for a relative. Five years before that, just after midnight on Nov. 7, 2015, Armendariz had gunned down 51-year-old Charles Neazer on 5th Street in Banning. Armendari…

Jury recommends death for man who murdered 5 in Banning

William Arnold 'Billy' Armendariz III is 'worth saving,' his attorney told jurors in arguing for life in prison. The prosecutor said the defendant is 'evil.'