Today, a San Diego, California jury convicted Seth Cravens, 22, of second degree murder in the death of professional surfer Emery Kauanui. The Bird Rock Bandit could face 15 years to life in prison.
These verdicts send a strong message to the community that brutality will not be tolerated” although they “will never replace the life that has been taken,” San Diego County prosecutor Sophia Roach said outside court.
Cravens was also convicted on four counts of “assualt with a deadly weapon, one count of misdemeanor battery and one count of making a criminal threat.”
[Link: San Diego Union Tribune and San Francisco Chronicle]
