Ex-Scientist Gets 14 Years in Racial Shooting
A former research scientist was sentenced Tuesday to the maximum prison term of 14 years and 8 months for the racially motivated shooting of a black teen-ager who had gone fishing with his cousins two years ago at Ballona Creek in Playa del Rey.
Mark Shane Lashley, 29, appeared stoic as Torrance Superior Court Judge John P. Shook sent him to prison for attempted murder and civil rights violations.
In a six-week non-jury trial last month, Shook convicted Lashley, who is white, of shooting Terence Goudeau, 20, with a high-powered rifle after taunting the Goudeau and his cousins from the balcony of Lashley’s condominium.
Lashley and his defense attorney, Lloyd Riley, had argued that he fired at Goudeau only after he and his cousins attacked Lashley’s cousin with knives.
Shook rejected those arguments and called the shooting of Goudeau “absolutely outrageous conduct that should not be tolerated.”
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