A hearing, used to determine whether a 17-year-old alleged gang member should be tried as an adult in the 2009 slaying of a Long Beach man over the victim's iPod, was postponed once again Thursday.
It marks at least the third delay in case of the defendant, who was 15 at the time of the April 2009 killing of Garrett Norris, 27.
If the defendant, who has not been identified because he is a juvenile, is tried as an adult, he faces the possibility of life without parole if convicted on all counts.
Norris was gunned down in broad daylight while playing basketball with friends on a Saturday afternoon at Orizaba Park, located at Spaulding Street and Orizaba Avenue.
The victim was killed after he tried to stop two alleged gang members from running off with his belongings, which included his iPod, police said.
The USC Engineering graduate, who moved to Long Beach last fall after securing a job with Mercedes-Benz of Long Beach, chased the suspects into an nearby alley, where he was shot in the chest, according to authorities.
Norris was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
The 15-year-old youth was arrested within a few days of Norris' slaying and has remained incarcerated at a juvenile detention center since that time.
His fitness hearing is now scheduled for April 12, according to court staff.
It marks at least the third delay in case of the defendant, who was 15 at the time of the April 2009 killing of Garrett Norris, 27.
If the defendant, who has not been identified because he is a juvenile, is tried as an adult, he faces the possibility of life without parole if convicted on all counts.
Norris was gunned down in broad daylight while playing basketball with friends on a Saturday afternoon at Orizaba Park, located at Spaulding Street and Orizaba Avenue.
The victim was killed after he tried to stop two alleged gang members from running off with his belongings, which included his iPod, police said.
The USC Engineering graduate, who moved to Long Beach last fall after securing a job with Mercedes-Benz of Long Beach, chased the suspects into an nearby alley, where he was shot in the chest, according to authorities.
Norris was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
The 15-year-old youth was arrested within a few days of Norris' slaying and has remained incarcerated at a juvenile detention center since that time.
His fitness hearing is now scheduled for April 12, according to court staff.
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