USA - California. A jury recommended execution for Charles Ray Smith.

A Los Angeles County jury recommended execution for Charles Ray Smith, 44, Black, a gang member found guilty of killing a total of 4 people on 2 separate occasions in 2006. Authorities said Charles Ray Smith, 44, and Ryan Moore, who had already been sentenced to death (see March 23 2012), were armed with AK-47s when they opened fire in Los Angeles on June 30, 2006. The attack, which came to be known as the "49th Street Massacre", killed 10-year-old David Marcial, his 22-year-old uncle Larry Marcial, and Luis Cervantes, a 17-year-old neighbor. The  boy was riding his bicycle at the time of the attack. Prosecutors said the men were out to avenge the deaths of fellow gang members, though the victims had no gang ties. In a separate incident, Smith was convicted of the March 31, 2006 shooting of Bani Hinojosa, 27, a man on his way home with milk for his family and no gang ties. Smith is scheduled to be sentenced on September 6.