LONG BEACH, Calif.—Five gang members were sentenced Jan. 29 to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the shooting deaths of three people at a Halloween-themed party in Long Beach just over four years ago, along with the attempted murders of nine other people who were injured, including a woman who was left paralyzed.
Jurors found David Heng Long, 23, Kaylin Thik, 24, Ryan Sim, 22, Jeremy Penh, 29, and Grant Johnson, 39, guilty last Nov. 15 of first-degree murder for the Oct. 29, 2019, killings of Melvin Williams II, 35, of Gardena, Maurice Poe Jr., 25, of Long Beach, and Ricardo Torres, 28, of Inglewood, who died at the scene of the shooting in the Rose Park area of Long Beach.
