{"id":66398,"date":"2015-09-11T08:58:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-11T15:58:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=66398"},"modified":"2015-09-11T22:25:23","modified_gmt":"2015-09-12T05:25:23","slug":"palmdale-man-pleads-not-guilty-in-mans-shooting-death-in-leimert-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/09\/11\/palmdale-man-pleads-not-guilty-in-mans-shooting-death-in-leimert-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Palmdale man pleads not guilty in man&#8217;s shooting death in Leimert Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_65934\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-65934\" style=\"width: 251px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Derron-Jones-victim.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-65934\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Derron-Jones-victim-251x300.jpg\" alt=\"Derron Jones, 25, was shot to death in Leimert Park on July 20, according to police, who said they believed the shooting was gang- related. (Image source: YouTube memorial video)\" width=\"251\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Derron-Jones-victim-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Derron-Jones-victim.jpg 326w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-65934\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Derron Jones, 25, was shot to death in Leimert Park on July 20, according to police, who said they believed the shooting was gang- related. (Image source: YouTube memorial video)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 A Palmdale man is one of two defendants who pleaded not guilty Thursday to capital murder in the shooting death of a 25-year-old man in Leimert Park.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Dondre Williams<\/strong>, 22, of Palmdale and <strong>Tyree Davion Woods<\/strong>, 21, of Los Angeles, are charged in the July 20 killing of <strong>Derron Jones<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The murder charge includes a special circumstance allegation of murder during the commission of a robbery. Prosecutors have yet to decide whether to seek the death penalty against the two.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors allege that the pair were following Jones and that Woods cut off the victim&#8217;s car as he tried to make a U-turn.<\/p>\n<p>Woods then allegedly got out of his car and opened fire, fatally injuring Jones, whose female passenger was uninjured.<\/p>\n<p>Woods and Williams were arrested Aug. 20 after a police pursuit.<\/p>\n<p>The two &#8212; who are jailed without bail &#8212; are due back in court Oct. 15, when a date is scheduled to be set for a hearing to determine if there is enough evidence to require them to stand trial.<\/p>\n<p><em><u>Previous related story<\/u>: <a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2015\/08\/25\/palmdale-man-charged-with-murder-in-leimert-park\/\" target=\"_blank\">Palmdale man charged with murder in Leimert Park<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES \u2014 A Palmdale man is one of two defendants who pleaded not guilty Thursday to capital murder in the shooting death of a 25-year-old man in Leimert Park. Dondre Williams, 22, of Palmdale and Tyree Davion Woods, 21, of Los Angeles, are charged in the July 20 killing of Derron Jones. The murder [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":65934,"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],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66398"}],"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=66398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}