PASADENA : Attorney Admits Client, 18, Killed 1 of 3 Girls
An attorney for one of two youths charged with the shotgun slaying last year of three teen-age girls conceded Tuesday in his summation in Pasadena Superior Court that his client had shot one of the girls.
“Vincent Hebrock is guilty of second-degree murder,” Rickard Santwier said, gesturing toward his 18-year-old client. “But the evidence is insufficient to establish premeditation.”
Prosecutor Nancy Naftel is seeking a conviction on first-degree murder charges, with a maximum sentence of life in prison, contending that Hebrock and David Adkins, 18, share equal responsibility in the deaths of Kathy Macaulay, 18; Heather Goodwin, 18, and Danae Palermo, 17.
In a tape played in court last week, Hebrock admitted shooting Macaulay during a drunken party at her home in a hillside Pasadena neighborhood, but said Adkins killed the other girls.
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