Wheelchair-Bound Paraplegic Held in Shooting Death of Man
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A wheelchair-bound paraplegic was in jail Sunday on homicide charges in the slaying of a 40-year-old Inglewood man, but police say they remain without clues as to the gunman’s motive.
“At this time, the detectives can’t link them,” Inglewood Police Lt. Ron Wood said of the victim, Richard A. Miles, and the man suspected in the Saturday shooting, Royce Houston Jr., 28, of Inglewood.
Witnesses told police that Houston waited in his wheelchair in front of Miles’ Grevillea Avenue house for three hours Saturday. When Miles returned home about 1:30 p.m., police say Houston used a .32-caliber handgun to shoot Miles several times. Houston quickly left the scene in his wheelchair and was arrested a few blocks away by Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies, who found him at a bus stop, with the gun in his waistband, Wood said.
Miles was pronounced dead at a local hospital.
Houston was confined to a wheelchair three years ago after a San Fernando Valley shooting that left him a paraplegic, police said. Authorities have not uncovered any evidence connecting the two shootings, Wood added.
Houston, booked on suspicion of murder, is being held without bail at county jail facilities.
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