FSU Gang Members Found Guilty In Restaurant Murder

Three Corona-area gang members were convicted Monday of beating a 19-year-old man to death outside a fast-food restaurant in an ttack triggered by the victim's perceived loyalty to a rival group.After deliberating all of Friday and most of this morning, a six-man, six-woman jury found Travis Daniel Westly, 26, Richard James Dugan, 27, and Jonathan Richard Morgan, 24, guilty of second-degree murder and entence-enhancing gang allegations for the June 23, 2006, fatal assault of Sean Thomas Gardhouse.

The defendants, scheduled to be sentenced Dec. 12, face 25 years to life in prison. On the night of the attack, the defendants were allegedly angry over an earlier confrontation between Morgan and members of a Corona-area group called SoCal Riders, or SCR, comprised mainly of high school students. Aki said Gardhouse was somehow perceived as an SCR sympathizer.