4th Suspect Arrested in Slayings of 2 College Students in Westside

Moving in shortly after midnight, detectives arrested a fourth suspect Tuesday in the slayings of two university students who police say were abducted and killed for the car they drove.

Donald Roy Bennett, 21, was arrested without incident at his South-Central Los Angeles home in connection with the deaths of Brian E. Harris, 20, and Michelle Ann Boyd, 19, Lt. Michael Carpenter of the Los Angeles Police Department’s West Bureau said.

The victims’ bodies were found Sunday in the Santa Monica Mountains. They had last been seen Sept. 30 at Boyd’s Westwood apartment. She had just completed her first day of classes at UCLA. Harris was a student at California State University, Northridge.

Working from a fingerprint lifted from Harris’ car, which was found in the Florence-Firestone district, investigators arrested Damon Layte Redmon, 19; Deandre Antwine Brown, 21, and Stanley Bernard Davis, 23, on Sunday.

Redmon, Brown and Davis are members of a street gang and have criminal records, West Bureau Cmdr. Larry Binkley told reporters. He accused them of kidnaping and shooting the two students to steal Harris’ car after their own broke down. Detectives traced Bennett through a nickname provided by an undisclosed source, according to Carpenter.