Fired Employee Guilty of Killing Security Guard
A Long Beach man was found guilty Monday of murdering a security guard at a stevedore company from which he had been fired about a month earlier, authorities said.
A jury convicted Garrick Christopher Harrington, 41, on one count of murder and another count of murder while committing a robbery in the 1993 death of Donald Clemmey, said Victoria Pipkin, a Los Angeles district attorney’s spokeswoman.
Harrington was fired from Metropolitan Stevedore Co., of Long Beach, where he worked as an assistant superintendent, only weeks before Clemmey was stabbed to death. Harrington moved to Sacramento on the day of the killing and told investigators that he had not returned to his former company’s office since he was fired, Pipkin said.
But investigators discovered Harrington’s thumbprint on a document found at Clemmey’s feet at the crime scene, Pipkin said. The document had been written only two days before the murder. Another thumbprint from Harrington was found on a telephone receiver in the next room.
Harrington is scheduled for sentencing Dec. 14 and faces a maximum of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
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