Two California 21-year-olds were convicted earlier this month of killing two men in an August 2013 “ambush-style” attack. Richard Singh and Jordan Killens, both of Seaside, faced a week of prosecutorial evidence after which jury deliberated for less than a day before rendering a guilty decision. The duo now faces the possibility of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
On Aug. 11, 2013, Monterey County sheriff’s deputies found 22-year-old Navneal Singh, no relation to Richard Singh, and 23-year-old Demetrius Safford, both of Sacramento, California, dead in Aromas, California. Both men sustained several gunshot wounds to the back, The Californian reported. Eventually, the case went cold, but last year, Monterey County Sheriff’s Detective Martin Opseth was assigned to re-evaluate the evidence and consider new possibilities.
Richard Singh was first arrested in March 2014, but was later released based on insufficient evidence. Ultimately, it was about a year before detectives gathered enough evidence to make an arrest stick. Richard Singh was re-arrested in July 2014. Killens was arrested a month later on the anniversary of Navneal Singh’s and Safford’s deaths.
The jury found the murders were accomplished with the use of firearms and by lying-in-wait, a special circumstance that increases the penalty to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
The two will be sentenced on June 3.
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