LONG BEACH : 3 to Be Tried in Slaying Linked to Secret Gang
Three Long Beach teen-agers were ordered to stand trial Wednesday on charges that they murdered a fellow student because they believed the youth had violated a loyalty oath to a secret, paramilitary club.
Concluding an on-again, off-again preliminary hearing that began Sept. 9, San Pedro Municipal Court Commissioner Ralph Amado ruled there was enough evidence to hold Schuyler MacPherson, Michael McDonald and Bryan Davis for trial in the murder of 16-year-old Alexander Giraldo.
MacPherson, 19, and McDonald and Davis, both 17, will be arraigned in Long Beach Superior Court on Oct. 7. Giraldo and some of the suspects purportedly belonged to a secret gang at Long Beach Polytechnic High School called Ace of Spades.
Police speculated that Giraldo was murdered because he told police about a series of auto burglaries he and another club member had committed.
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