Thirty-three-year-old Sinque Beiama Morrison was sentenced to 109 years to life, and 22-year-old Michael Barnett Jr. got 101 years to life Wednesday for the 2005 killing of Mynisha Crenshaw in San Bernardino.Two gang members have each been sentenced to more than 100 years in prison for their part in the fatal shooting of an 11-year-old girl.Each man was convicted in October on five counts including murder.Crenshaw was eating dinner with her family when she was shot to death and her 14-year-old sister was wounded.Morrison and Barnett were part of a street gang avenging an earlier killing that mistakenly fired on the girl's home.Twelve members of the gang have been convicted or reached plea agreements in the girl's killing. The last three are scheduled for sentencing Monday.
William (Billy) Bowden pleaded guilty in a Winnipeg courtroom today to carrying a firearm in a careless manner in January 2007
William (Billy) Bowden, 33, pleaded guilty in a Winnipeg courtroom today to carrying a firearm in a careless manner in January 2007 and skipping out on his preliminary hearing about a year later. Other drug and weapons charges related to the 2007 incident were stayed as part of a plea bargain securing the two convictions. Bowden remains in custody though, charged with manslaughter in relation to the November 2007 killing of Jeff Engen, who was fatally stabbed at the Empire Cabaret, prompting the club to close. That charge remains before the courts. Bowden has been in custody since he was arrested Feb. 14 in Whistler, B.C., and returned to Manitoba. The Crown and defence jointly recommended that time be noted in his sentence for carrying the firearm. That crime occurred around 2:30 a.m. on Jan. 20, 2007, as Bowden was leaving the NV lounge in a truck with friend Ken Houston, court heard. Police discovered a Glock 9mm handgun loaded with 18 bullets in a pile of garbage close to where the...
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