Boy, 17, to Be Tried as Adult in Killing of Girl : Pacoima: The teen-ager is scheduled to be arraigned on murder charges for the January slaying of a 12-year-old.

Calling it a “slam dunk case,” a Juvenile Court commissioner ruled Wednesday that a 17-year-old Inglewood boy should be tried as an adult for the shooting death of Tiffany Dozier, a 12-year-old girl killed in front of the Boys & Girl Club in Pacoima in January.

Commissioner Victor Reichman said that the teen-ager, who is scheduled to be arraigned on murder charges in San Fernando Superior Court next week, was unfit to be tried as a juvenile because of the severity of the crime.

“It’s virtually a slam dunk case,” said Reichman. “Whether he intended to murder . . . or take a pot shot . . . he had to be aware that it was extremely likely that someone would be killed.”

Police Detective Gary Holbrook said in court that the teen-ager told him in an interview at the police station that he and some friends had driven on Jan. 9 to the Boys & Girl Club, where there was dance.

They parked in a nearby parking lot, and the teen-ager placed a loaded gun that he had brought with him in a grassy area outside the club, then mingled with others outside the club. The teen-ager said he heard a gunshot and then a group of teen-agers started running toward him.

The teen-ager said he retrieved the gun from the grassy area, fired into the crowd, climbed into his friend’s car and drove off, Holbrook recounted.

Police contend that the shot the teen-ager fired struck Dozier in the back as she tried to run into the club.

The teen-ager’s attorney, Michael Goodman, argued unsuccessfully that even if the police version of the incident was true, his client should be charged only with voluntary manslaughter rather than murder.

Goodman also said there were several witnesses who had identified another teen-ager as the shooter.

That teen-ager had also been held on murder charges. However, prosecutors decided not to pursue a case against that youth and the charges were dropped Wednesday, Deputy Dist. Atty. Paula Gonzalez said.

A North Hollywood man, Tremayne Stevenson, 20, earlier pleaded guilty to discharging a firearm in a grossly negligent manner in connection with the shooting.

He was sentenced in April to three years probation and the 154 days he had already served in county jail.