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Bruce MILLSAP
Classification: Murderer
Characteristics: Member
of a Carson Crips gang - Robberies
Number of victims: 8
Date of murders: 1995 - 1996
Date of birth: 1966
Victims profile: Fernando Herrera
/ Ramone
McKissick / James Moon
/ Lamont Smith / Manuel Garibay
/ Francisco Parocua,
Carlos Nuno and Patrick Barnett
Method of murder:
Shooting
Location: Los
Angeles County, California, USA
Status: Sentenced to eight death sentences and
200 years in prison on February 23, 2000
Sentenced: Feb. 23,
2000, age 33
Residence: Carson
Crimes: Robbery, murder
Date of crimes: Various
Location: Carson, Long Beach
Victims: Fernando Herrera, Ramone
McKissick; James Moon, Lamont Smith, Manuel Garibay, Francisco Parocua,
Carlos Nuno and Patrick Barnett
Status: On appeal, not briefed
Millsap received eight death
sentences and 200 years in prison for his crimes.
A member of a Carson Crips gang,
Millsap was found guilty of the November 1995 robbery-murder of armored
car guard Herrera in Long Beach; the November 1995 slaying of McKissick;
the February 1996 robbery-murder of armored car driver Moon at Curtiss
Junior High School in Carson; the November 1996 killing of armored car
guard Smith at a Wal-Mart in San Bernardino County; the January 1996
murder of Garibay, a witness against him; and the August 1996
robbery-murders of Parocua, Nuno and Barnett.
Before his guilty verdict was
read, Millsap accused his attorney of having Alzheimer’s disease.
“He’s
incompetent and I wasn’t allowed to put up an adequate defense on my
behalf,” Millsap said.
2 Convicted on 11 Murder Counts in String of Crimes
Los Angeles Times
January 11, 2000
One reputed gang member was convicted Monday of eight murders and
another was found guilty of three murders, all of them stemming from a
savage string of armored car holdups and other crimes in the mid-1990s.
A Los Angeles Superior Court jury found Bruce Millsap,
33, guilty on 23 counts, including eight counts of murder. Co-defendant
Kendrick Loot, 28, was convicted on six counts, including three of
murder.
A third suspect, Roshone Colston,
30, awaits trial on four murder counts. A fourth, Emanuel Brown,
hanged himself in jail after being ordered to stand trial.
Prosecutors are asking the jury to sentence Millsap
and Loot to death. The penalty phase of the trial is expected to begin
today.
Millsap and Loot were convicted of the Nov. 30, 1995,
robbery-murder of armored car driver Fernando Herrera in the Long Beach
building housing Queen City Bank, and the Feb. 9, 1996, robbery-murder
of armored car driver James Moon at a Carson school. The two also were
convicted of the Nov. 15, 1995, killing of Ramone McKissick.
In addition, Millsap was convicted of the Nov. 3,
1996, robbery-murder of Lamont Smith; the Jan. 31, 1996, murder of
Manuel Garibay, a witness against him; and the August 1996 robbery-murders
of Carlos Nuno, Francisco Parocua and Patrick Barnett.
Millsap also was convicted on 15 other counts,
including robbery and attempted murder. He was acquitted on a 24th count,
shooting into an inhabited dwelling.
Loot also was convicted of attempted murder, robbery
and attempted robbery.
Officers said the crimes ranged across Los Angeles,
Orange and San Bernardino counties.
The men were described by one sheriff's lieutenant as
"super predators."
"Their crime spree was so broad in scope, so
unrepentant, so murderous, that investigators worked around the clock,
seven days a week, months on end, to bring their reign of terror to an
end," homicide detectives said in a statement.
