{"id":104561,"date":"2021-10-12T17:52:14","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T00:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=104561"},"modified":"2021-10-12T17:52:44","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T00:52:44","slug":"man-sentenced-to-life-without-parole-for-triple-murder-in-palmdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2021\/10\/12\/man-sentenced-to-life-without-parole-for-triple-murder-in-palmdale\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to life without parole for triple-murder in Palmdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_104562\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-104562\" style=\"width: 1080px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Palmdale-triple-murder-victims-crime-scene.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-104562\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Palmdale-triple-murder-victims-crime-scene.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"607\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Palmdale-triple-murder-victims-crime-scene.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Palmdale-triple-murder-victims-crime-scene-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Palmdale-triple-murder-victims-crime-scene-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/Palmdale-triple-murder-victims-crime-scene-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-104562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">[Inset L to R] Victims Olukayode Owolabi, Sean Cowan and David Hernandez-Licona, (Images via <a href=\"https:\/\/gunmemorial.org\/2019\/01\/16\/olukayode-a-owolabi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">gunmemorial.org<\/a>) Main Photo: A command post was set up Jan. 16, 2019, near Ranch Center Drive and 40th Street West in Palmdale, where the victims were found in two parked cars. [Image via April Jenkins]<\/figcaption><\/figure>A homeless man was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for a 2019 shooting that left three men dead and another seriously wounded during a bogus marijuana deal in Palmdale.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jonathan Paul Misirli<\/strong>, now 38, was convicted Sept. 21 of three counts of first-degree murder and one count each of attempted murder and robbery, according to Deputy District Attorney Ryan Williams.<\/p>\n<p>Jurors also found true the special circumstance allegations of murder during a robbery, murder while lying in wait and multiple murders.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Olukayode Owolabi,<\/strong> 27, and <strong>David Hernandez-Licona<\/strong>, 25, both of Los Angeles, and <strong>Sean Cowen<\/strong>, 24, of Van Nuys, were killed during the Jan. 16, 2019, attack at Ranch Center Drive and 40th Street West.<\/p>\n<p>Another man survived, but was seriously wounded.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center; margin-top: 20px; margin-bottom: 20px; \" id=\"theav-722504180\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-4504301096758439\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-4504301096758439\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"5907184250\" \ndata-ad-layout=\"in-article\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Misirli set up a bogus drug deal and then shot the four victims while they were inside two vehicles, according to the prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>The defendant took a bag containing about $2,500 in cash and about $10,000 in jewelry that was later pawned, but missed a separate container that had $15,000 in cash, Williams said.<\/p>\n<p>Misirli was arrested by Los Angeles County homicide detectives about 3 1\/2 months later as he walked along North Vermont Avenue in the Los Feliz area of Los Angeles, after investigators learned that he had been living in the park area surrounding the Griffith Park Observatory.<\/p>\n<p>He has remained jailed since then.<\/p>\n<p>Previous related stories:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2019\/05\/03\/man-arrested-charged-in-palmdale-triple-homicide\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Man arrested, charged in Palmdale triple homicide<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2019\/01\/19\/coroner-ids-three-men-shot-dead-in-palmdale\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Coroner IDs three men shot dead in Palmdale<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2019\/01\/17\/three-dead-one-wounded-in-palmdale-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Three killed, one wounded in Palmdale shooting<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A homeless man was sentenced Tuesday to life in prison without the possibility of parole for a 2019 shooting that left three men dead and another seriously wounded during a bogus marijuana deal in Palmdale. Jonathan Paul Misirli, now 38, was convicted Sept. 21 of three counts of first-degree murder and one count each of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":104562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719,1499,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104561"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}