Gunner Lindberg
Gunner Jay Lindberg (born March 1, 1975)[3] is a convicted murderer on death row in California. Lindberg was convicted of the 1996 murder of 24-year-old Vietnamese American Thien Minh Ly in Tustin, California.[4]
Gunner Lindberg | |
|---|---|
| Born | Gunner Lindberg March 1, 1975 |
| Criminal status | Imprisoned at San Quentin State Prison in California[1] |
| Conviction(s) | First degree murder |
| Criminal penalty | Death |
Date apprehended | March 2, 1996[2] |
Lindberg wanted to celebrate that evening's Super Bowl victory by the Dallas Cowboys, by finding "a Jap". Lindberg and an accomplice, 17-year-old Domenic Michael Christopher, encountered Ly, who was rollerblading around the tennis courts at Tustin High School. Lindberg and Christopher trapped Ly on the courts, beat him, kicked him and then stabbed him many times. Prosecutors also charged Lindberg with a hate crime.[5] Before that, Lindberg served most of a five-year prison sentence for another first-degree assault after shooting an 11-year-old boy three times with a pellet gun in 1992.[6]
On August 29, 2008, the California Supreme Court affirmed Lindberg's convictions and death sentence.[5]
References
- Inmate Information: LINDBERG, GUNNER JAY. CDCR Number: K79300. Current Location: San Quentin State Prison. Information current as of: 07/12/2019
- Blanchard, Geoff (March 3, 1996). "Police Say Suspect Organized Gangs in Two States". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 31, 2018.
- "Death Row".
- Anton, Mike (August 30, 2008). "Death penalty upheld in O.C. hate killing". The Los Angeles Times. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- Moxley, R. Scott (August 28, 2008). "OC Hate Crime Killer Headed For Lethal Injection". OC Weekly. Archived from the original on July 29, 2010. Retrieved June 10, 2012.
- Page 15 article, The Springfield News-Leader, Wednesday, February 5, 1992.