By Andy Furillo
afurillo@sacbee.com
Two separate Sacramento Superior Court juries have returned murder convictions against two Stockton men charged in the shooting deaths of two residents of an Arden Arcade apartment complex last year.
One panel today found Dominique Amos, 21, guilty of second-degree murder in the Jan. 14, 2010, killings of Eleea Langley Jr. and Marcus Thompson at the Villa Capri apartments on Trussel Way.
On Tuesday, the other jury convicted Ronnie Brown III, also 21, of second-degree murder in the same two deaths.
According to evidence at trial, Brown and Amos were called to the apartment complex by three friends who had been in physical altercations with other residents at the apartment building.
After they had helped their friends retrieve their belongings from an apartment, jurors found that the two defendants went back into the complex and sprayed it with gunfire. Investigators recovered about 20 shell casings.
The gunshots killed Langley, 29, and Thompson, 18. The two shooting victims were not involved in the disagreement between the defendants' friends and other residents of the building.
Amos' jury also convicted him of the attempted murder of a third victim who was shot in the arm. Brown's jury acquitted him of the same attempted murder charge.
Judge Gary S. Mullen scheduled the sentencing June 17 for the two defendants.
Amos and Brown each face 80 years to life terms, 15-to-life for each of the second-degree murder counts and 25-to-life on jurors' findings that they each discharged guns leading to the two deaths.
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