Local News in Brief : Intruder Was Murderer
The intruder shot and killed by a Ladera Heights woman in her home Sunday has been identified as a convicted murderer and thief, Los Angeles sheriff’s investigators said Wednesday.
The dead man, Steven Wilkes, 26, of Los Angeles, was sentenced to five years in the California Youth Authority after a 1979 murder conviction and was jailed again in 1984 for armed robbery, Detective Bill Gaynor said.
Wilkes was on probation from a 1987 drug possession conviction when he was shot and killed in a struggle with Massa Sheridan, 26.
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