Petition Drive Seeks New Charges in Girl’s Slaying
Organizers of a petition urging authorities to press charges against a Long Beach man as an accessory in last year’s slaying of a 7-year-old girl in a Nevada casino took their campaign to his hometown this week.
Representatives of the girl’s mother, Yolanda Manuel, stood outside the city’s courthouse Thursday seeking support for their effort to have David Cash charged in connection with the murder of Sherrice Iverson.
“He has the blood of Sherrice Iverson on his hands,” said Najee Ali, director of Islamic Project H.O.P.E. and the coordinator of the petition campaign.
Cash, 20, has said he saw his friend Jeremy Strohmeyer struggle with Sherrice in a casino bathroom last year and later heard Strohmeyer admit to the killing. Nevada police have said they have no grounds on which to ask prosecutors to charge Cash.
Ali said the campaign has collected about 6,000 signatures in Los Angeles and that he hopes to get twice that number.
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