Gunman Convicted in Disco Death
A jury convicted a Normal Heights man of second-degree murder and three assault charges Tuesday in a shooting rampage last October at a Loma Portal disco.
After 1 1/2 days of deliberations, the jury found Daniel Wallace, 24, guilty in the Oct. 27 death of Tanya Shaw, 20, who was shot in the head at Rasputin’s Disco and Nightclub.
The same San Diego Superior Court jury acquitted Willie Pitts, 22, also of Normal Heights, of murder, manslaughter, attempted murder and assault with a firearm in the same incident.
Wallace could receive a sentence of 15 years to life in state prison on the second-degree murder charge alone and could get additional years for the assault counts involving shots fired at other patrons. The jury acquitted him of first-degree murder and attempted murder.
Judge J. Perry Langford ordered Wallace to be held to await an Aug. 16 sentencing.
The shooting took place after Wallace and Pitts were ejected twice from Rasputin’s by security personnel. Shots were fired from a car later that evening, and four went through a stained-glass window.
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