Death Urged for L.A. Man in Vegas Crimes
Prosecutors in Las Vegas say they will seek the death penalty when a jury returns Wednesday to decide the punishment for former Los Angeles Policeman Steven Homick, who was convicted of a triple slaying at the home of a Las Vegas socialite.
Homick, 48, was convicted Friday in the Dec. 11, 1985, slayings of Bobbie Jean Tipton, her maid, Marie Bullock, and James Myers, a deliveryman who stumbled across the crime.
Prosecutors said the slayings occurred when Homick went to Tipton’s southeast Las Vegas home to rob her of $1 million in jewelry he thought she had at the residence.
Homick has also been charged in the so-called “Ninja” contract slayings of a Brentwood couple in September, 1985, and with being the leader of a ring that killed an elderly Las Vegas man the same year.
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