Local News in Brief : Killer of 2 Gets Life Term
Eric Dicks, 21-year-old convicted killer of a South-Central Los Angeles minister’s wife and her teen-age son, was sentenced Friday to life in prison without possibility of parole.
Bessie Mae Ross, 54, and her son David, 15, were shot to death in September, 1985, by Dicks and two other men who were seeking to avenge the death of a friend, Deputy Dist. Atty. David S. Milton said.
Milton said the gunmen may have believed that Tommy Ross, David’s older brother, was responsible for killing Dicks’ friend, Stanford Bursey, 24. Tommy Ross, who was not at home when his mother and brother were killed, is awaiting trial on charges that he killed Bursey.
Dicks’ alleged accomplice, Rodney Charles Glaze, is scheduled for trial next year. The third suspect in the Ross killings was released for lack of evidence.
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