Man Gets Life Term for Murder-Suicide Attempt
An Antelope Valley man was sentenced Friday to life in prison for shooting his wife and stepdaughter in a failed murder-suicide attempt last year.
Reportedly distraught over a possible divorce, Louis Hunter Jr., 40, shot the pair in the head and then shot himself. His 16-year-old stepdaughter, the most seriously injured, now uses a walker and one side of her face is paralyzed. Dolly Hunter, 35, is now deaf in one ear.
Investigators said Hunter fired the shots as the family was traveling in a tractor-trailer rig on 90th Street East in Palmdale on June 28, 2000. A passerby found them inside the truck, which had crashed into a tree.
Los Angeles Superior Court Judge William F. Fahey in Lancaster sentenced Hunter to life in prison with a possibility of parole, a consecutive 50 years-to-life term and an additional nine-year term, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Robert Sherwood.
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