SOUTHLAND : Triggerman, 27, Convicted in ’85 Slayings of College Sweethearts

A 27-year-old Los Angeles man today was convicted of kidnaping and killing two Southland college students in 1985, a crime that could result in his death in the gas chamber.

The jury that deliberated the fate of Stanley Bernard Davis announced its verdict just after 10:30 a.m. in Santa Monica Superior Court.

Davis was accused of stealing Cal State Northridge sophomore Brian Harris’s car and then executing the 20-year-old student and UCLA freshman Michelle Ann Boyd, 19, because he didn’t want any witnesses.

The panel convicted Davis on a total of 11 counts, including grand theft, burglary, arson, kidnaping and murder, and found that special circumstances allegations were true.

Co-defendants Damon Redmond and Donald Roy Bennett already have been convicted of murder in connection with the slayings. Redmond was sentenced to 18 years to life in prison, and Bennett is serving a life term.

A fourth man, DeAndre Brown, 25, testified against Davis under a grant of immunity.

The Thousand Oaks High School sweethearts were abducted Oct. 1, 1985, while on a date near Boyd’s Gayley Avenue apartment in Westwood. The foursome grabbed the couple and took Harris’s 1981 Honda Civic. The group then drove to a secluded area off Mulholland Drive where Davis shot the two students using a Uzi assault rifle.

Prosecutors allege the men stole the car when they realized the pickup truck they were driving wouldn’t make the trip to Barstow, where they hoped to rob a liquor store and bail a friend out of jail.