Deputy public defender Michael Shultz, left, can hardly bear to watch as convicted three-striker and captured jail escapee George Lawerence Allen growls during a court appearance to set his sentancing date, tuesday afternoon at Santa Monica Court. STAFF PHOTO BY RICHARD HARTOG 8/20/96

With an empty freeway behind him, a lone haz-mat worker makes his way towards a truck and its spill on the closed 710 freeway in South Gate, Ca.

Students hold a candlelight vigil at De Neve Plaza on the UCLA campus in Westwood Thursday April 19 2007.

Brother Jose Arturo Saldana, left, comforts his sister Stacy Saldana on the front porch as they mourn the death of their father Arturo Saldana, 62, at his home in Norwalk, Tuesday, April 01. Saldana was one of two men slain in an East L.A. used car lot on Monday afternoon.

With guns drawn, West Los Angeles police officers surround an apartment building where a car theft suspect was hiding near Pico Blvd. and Bundy Drive in West L.A. STAFF PHOTO BY RICHARD HARTOG

A tear rolls down the face of Michael Chambers during a press conference about the Independence Day weekend killing of his mother Virginia Alvarez at Parker Center in downtown L.A.