Cheryl Green, Christopher Ash, Jonathan Fajardo, etc.: June 2008 Archives

Prosecutors are still deciding whether they will seek the death penalty for Jonathan Fajardo and four other 204th Street gang members accused of killing friend Christopher Ash in Carson because they thought he snitched to the police about the slaying of 14-year-old Cheryl Green in the Harbor Gateway. The District Attorney's Special Circumstances Committee is also still considering whether Fajardo and another man accused of killing Cheryl will be sent to death row if convicted, too.

The five defendants in the Ash murder case were in a downtown courtroom today for a trial, but it was postponed because there is a motion a pending on whether or not to try the two cases together. Deputy District Attorney John Ramseyer told Judge Steven Van Sicklen that Fajardo is representing himself in the Cheryl murder case.

Everyone comes back to court Sept. 3 for the consolidation motion.

Fajardo and Ernesto Alcarez are charged with capital murder for killing Cheryl, who is black, as she stood with friends and family on Dec. 15, 2006. Authorities believe they shot the group in retaliation for an earlier shooting.