Armed robbers hold gun to a well-known elderly Kiwi businessman Doug McKay’s temple and violently assaulted him and his elderly wife before running over and killing the woman - in "usually safe," upscale Newport, Beach, California, on July 2, 2024.

Newport Beach Police officials identified the suspects as

• Jaden Cunningham, 18, of Lancaster,

• Malachi Edward Darnell, 18, of Los Angeles, and

• Leroyernest Joseph McCrary, 26, of Compton.

All three were booked on homicide, firearm and criminal conspiracy charges.

The Los Angeles Times reported McCrary has a history of crimes in LA County and was arrested in October 2022 with being a narcotics addict in possession of a firearm.

He pleaded no contest to the felony charge the year after and was charged in a robbery case in September 2023 and again pleaded no contest.

McCrary received a concurrent sentence for both convictions and got two years of probation and three years in state prison, with the sentence being suspended.

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/witness-describes-armed-robber-holding-gun-to-kiwi-businessman-doug-mckays-temple-before-wife-run-down-in-california/35DVLQJZMNC4VLRXFOGHYWCJT4/

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Had the oldest of the 3 assailants been in prison in 2023 serving his last (suspended) sentence, he would not have been in Newport Beach, CA, on Tuesday, at the upscale Fashion Island Mall, assaulting and killing a New Zealand tourist and her husband.

Soft on crime has ugly consequences, as we see over and over and over and over again.

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One of the McKays’ Auckland neighbours was in tears after learning of his friend’s “tragic” death last night.

He said the couple were only just beginning to enjoy life as grandparents and Trish “loved being a grandmother”.

“We are all in shock.”

https://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/new-zealand-woman-dies-in-us-after-being-robbed-and-run-over-by-car-reports/BNKINP5LSZCQHGLF4UUUPCJAQE/