3rd Man Guilty of Murder in Bombing That Killed Boy
The third member of a gang trio that firebombed a house in South-Central Los Angeles, killing a 2-year-old boy, was convicted of murder Friday by a Compton jury after four hours of deliberation.
Leonard Ray Nixon, 27, will be sent to prison for life, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Kevin J. McCormick, who prosecuted the special-circumstance murder case. The special circumstances were murder by arson and murder by a destructive device. Two other defendants, Sekou Thompson and Anthony Snead, 21, were received life terms earlier this year.
The prosecution contended that Thompson drove Snead and Nixon to the home of Snead’s former girlfriend on July 4, 1988, and that Snead and Nixon threw two Molotov cocktails into the house, igniting a fire that killed the boy, Dionsa Moore. The ex-girlfriend was the child’s aunt.
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