Trials Rescheduled in L.A. Slaying of Santa Ana Minister
Trials were rescheduled Wednesday for two Los Angeles gang members charged with robbing a Santa Ana minister stranded in South Central Los Angeles, then shooting him to death as he prayed inside a telephone booth and his wife watched.
Jury selection in the trial of Tracy Carter, 18, was rescheduled to begin Sept. 22 in Los Angeles Superior Court. Todd Lavera, 22, was rescheduled to face a separate trial in the same slaying Sept. 23.
A third reputed gang member, Andre Moore, pleaded guilty in February to the April, 1987, first-degree murder of David Thompson, a licensed minister and an elder at the Greater Zion Apostolic Church in Tustin. Moore, 17, was later sentenced to 32 years to life in state prison.
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