{"id":41307,"date":"2013-08-06T18:01:08","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T01:01:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=41307"},"modified":"2014-12-12T17:48:52","modified_gmt":"2014-12-13T01:48:52","slug":"10k-reward-offered-in-lancaster-double-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2013\/08\/06\/10k-reward-offered-in-lancaster-double-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"$10K reward offered in Lancaster double murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_39201\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-39201\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Packard-and-Sewell-double-murder-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39201\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Packard-and-Sewell-double-murder-2-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"Nicky Packard (left) and Michael Sewell Jr. were shot to death on June 23. \" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Packard-and-Sewell-double-murder-2-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/Packard-and-Sewell-double-murder-2.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-39201\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nicky Packard (left) and Michael Sewell Jr. were shot to death on June 23.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LANCASTER \u2013 The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday unanimously approved a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and\/or conviction of those responsible for the murder of Nicky Packard and Michael Sewell, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Packard, 33, and Sewell, 22, were shot to death around 4:45 a.m. on June 23, 2013 following a party on Hanstead Avenue in Lancaster.<\/p>\n<p>The victims were part of a group that had just left the party and were congregating in front of a house down the street, according to investigators.<\/p>\n<p>A verbal argument among the group turned into a physical altercation, which escalated into the shooting, investigator said.<\/p>\n<p>Packard and Sewell were shot multiple times in the upper torso and pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on the murders is urged to contact Los Angeles County Sheriff Detectives Tim O\u2019Quinn and Brian Schoonmaker at 323-890-5500.<\/p>\n<p>Previous related stories:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Public help sought in double murder investigation\" href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2013\/06\/29\/public-help-sought-in-double-murder-investigation\/\" target=\"_blank\">Public help sought in double murder investigation<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a title=\"Men shot and killed after party in Lancaster\" href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2013\/06\/24\/men-shot-and-killed-after-party-in-lancaster\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Men shot and killed after party in Lancaster<\/a><\/p>\n<div>&#8211;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LANCASTER \u2013 The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors Tuesday unanimously approved a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and\/or conviction of those responsible for the murder of Nicky Packard and Michael Sewell, Jr. Packard, 33, and Sewell, 22, were shot to death around 4:45 a.m. on June 23, 2013 following a party [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":39200,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41307"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}