California Gov. Gavin Newsom Loves Racist, Hate Crime Murders: Update on the 1985 “Sweethearts’” Double Murder

Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 7:25:00 P.M. EDT
By David in TN

I have an update on the 1985 “Sweethearts’” double murder
in Santa Monica.

The killers were from South-Central Los Angeles. The victims, Michelle Anne Boyd and Brian Harris, were students at UCLA and Cal State Northridge, respectively.

The “triggerman,” Stanley Davis, was sentenced to death and is one of the death row inmates commuted by Gavin Newsom. Here is a list of California’s death row in alphabetical order with date, photo, and crime.

Damon Redmond was sentenced to “53 Years to Life.” On January 23, Redmond was “Granted Parole,” according to the Cal Dept of Corrections Inmate Locator. Redmond's parole goes to Newsom’s desk, who signs off on it, or can reverse it. I think we know what he will do.

A third suspect, Donald Bennett, was sentenced to “18 Years to Life.” Bennett has apparently long since been paroled, as he’s not in the system.

The Boyd-Harris murders have an eerie similarity to the Knoxville Horror.

[N.S.: Also to the 1973, Nation of Islam murder of Quita Hague, and mutilation of her husband, Richard.
The article below was partially reconstructed from microfilm.]

Man gets 53 years for student slayings
By Eugene Ahn, Staff Writer
Daily Bruin
THURSDAY, JANUARY 12, 1989

A South-Central Los Angeles gang member convicted in the kidnapping and
murder of a UCLA student and her Cal State Northridge boyfriend was sentenced Wednesday to 53 years to life in prison.

Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Leslie W. Light imposed the maximum sentence possible against Damon Layte Redmond, 23, who was convicted by a jury Dec. 1 of murder, kidnapping, arson and grand theft during a 1985 crime spree.

Redmond and three other gang members kidnapped 18-year-old Michelle Anne Boyd and 20-year old Brian Harris outside Boyd’s apartment on Gayley Avenue on Oct. 1, 1985, the prosecution said.

The victims’ Bodies were found a few miles away Oct. 6 in a field off the San Diego Freeway near Mulholland Drive. Each had been shot in the head once with an Uzi assault rifle.

Boyd was a UCLA freshman, and Harris was a sophomore at Cal State Northridge.

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Investigators said the four gang members had planned to rob a Barstow liquor store at gunpoint. The four drove to Westwood where they abandoned their truck when it got a flat tire.

In Westwood, they confronted Boyd and Harris as the couple walked from
Boyd’s apartment to Harris’ car.

Police said the gang members then decided to abduct the students and take the car, which the four planned to use in the robbery.

The motive for the slayings “appears to us to be the simple fact . . . they wanted to leave no witnesses,” Detective Lt. Mike Carpenter said following the arrests.

However, they nixed their plans to rob the store, and the stolen car was torched and discarded in the Firestone area of Los Angeles.

Redmond was the first of four men arrested for the

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murders, after police recovered a lone fingerprint in Harris' gutted car.

Stanley Bernard Davis, 26, who allegedly fired the fatal shots, faces a Superior Court trial Feb. 27 next month, said Deputy District Attorney
Harvey Giss.

Another defendant, Donald Roy Bennett, 24, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in March and is serving a sentence of 18 years to
life.

The fourth alleged participant, 24-year-old De Andre Antwine Brown, testified under immunity during the [?]-week trial. He said Redmond was with Davis when each victim was murdered.

With reports from the

[N.S.: Microfilm broke off at this point. But even if it hadn’t, the police and the Daily Bruin reporter conspired to leave most of the racist killers’ acts unreported.]