TORRANCE : Parolee Who Killed Man in Club Gets 30 Years to Life
A federal prison parolee who shot a man to death at a Downtown Los Angeles nightclub during an argument about a woman was sentenced Thursday in Torrance Superior Court to 30 years to life in state prison.
Roy David Summers, 29, was convicted of first-degree murder last month in the slaying of Thomas C. Williams, 27.
Prosecutors said Summers--who had been released from federal prison two months earlier after serving six years for drug trafficking and a weapons code violation--shot Williams to death at the Mayan club at 11th and Hill streets on May 20, 1993.
Summers was captured in North Carolina earlier this year after being featured on the television show, “America’s Most Wanted.”
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