2 Boys Held in Sniper Attacks That Killed 1
Two 14-year-old Pacoima boys have been arrested on suspicion of murder after separate sniper attacks with a rifle that wounded a 13-year-old girl in the face and killed a truck driver on “a spur of the moment decision to see if they could shoot him,” police said.
The two were taken into custody shortly after Mark Rodney Sanford, 26, of La Crescenta, was killed by a bullet Thursday as he worked at a Familian Pipe & Supply Co. plant on Van Nuys Boulevard, Lt. Bernard Conine said Friday.
A day earlier, one of the youths fired a shot into a Rapid Transit District bus traveling north on Van Nuys Boulevard, Conine said. The 13-year-old girl, a passenger, was wounded in the cheek, but police did not know whether she was hit by the bullet or fragments of glass.
Police said one boy was held on suspicion of murder and the other on suspicion of murder and attempted murder in Sylmar Juvenile Hall, pending a hearing next week.
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