2 Convicted in 1994 Murder of 2 Venice High Students
Jurors on Tuesday convicted two Venice gang members of murdering a pair of Venice High students in 1994.
Shauntee Rogers, 28, and Kwamin Preston Stewart, 22, were each charged with two counts of murder in the shooting deaths of Jose Tizcareno, 17, of Venice and Jose Alvarez, 18, of Los Angeles outside the school on June 10, 1994. The jury also convicted them on two counts of attempted murder for wounding two other men who were in the car with the victims.
Although the killings happened at the height of a gang war between black and Latino groups in Venice’s Oakwood district, prosecutors said the killings were a case of mistaken identity and the victims were not gang members.
The two men, who face life in prison without parole, will be sentenced Jan. 30.
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