Five gang members have been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing three people and wounding nine others in what was one of the worst mass shootings in Long Beach history.
Jeremy Penh, David Long, Ryan Sim, Kaylin Thik, and Grant Johnson were convicted in November of three counts of murder and nine counts of attempted murder , and at their sentencing hearing Monday, a judge said they’d shown no remorse for their crimes.
“I don’t see that you feel the gravity of what you did, and for that, I’m speechless, I suppose,” said Long Beach Superior Court Judge Laura Laesecke, who called the killings a “cowardly” and “futile” act of violence carried out “for a gang that quite frankly, few people have ever heard of.”
Prosecutors said the defendants believed they were shooting at rival gang members when they ambushed guests attending a Halloween-themed birthday party in the backyard of a home in Long Beach’s Rose Park neighborhood on the night of Oct. 29, 2019.