Verdicts reached in third Mynisha Crenshaw trial in Victorville

Superior Court officials have alerted lawyers that verdicts have been reached and will be announced shortly in the third criminal trial stemming from the slaying of 11-year-old Mynisha Crenshaw.

Deputy District Attorney Ron Webster confirmed about 2:30 p.m. today that lawyers are awaiting the veridcts on defendants Michael Barnett Jr. and Sinque Morrison in Victorville Superior Court.

Prosecutors say Barnett and Morrison were part of a larger group of suspected gang members who were seeking revenge against a rival gang when shots were fired into the San Bernardino apartment where Mynisha lived with her family in November 2005.

Inside the apartment, Mynisha was eating dinner with her family. Mynisha was struck once in the chest, while her then 14-year-old sister was shot in the right arm - severing the bone.

Prosecutors have insisted the girls' family had no gang ties and no weapons. The girls were unintended victims.

Two co-defendants, Sidikiba Greenwood and Harold Phillips, were convicted and sentenced to state prison earlier this year. Eight other defendants have taken plea bargains, of which three are awaiting sentencing.