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SECTION: Section A; Page 24, Column 3; National Desk
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LOS ANGELES GANG SUSPECT SEIZED IN SLAYING OF FAMILY OF SPORT STAR
BYLINE: UPI
DATELINE: LOS ANGELES, Oct. 24
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A teen-age gang member has been arrested in the slaying of the mother, sister and two nephews of the former football star Kermit Alexander. He could be sentenced to death if convicted, prosecutors said today.
The suspect, Tiequon Aundray Cox, 18 years old, on parole in a jail term that began Sept. 6 on an unrelated charge, was identified in a lineup late Tuesday after he was arrested Monday in the slayings.
Ernie Norris, Deputy District Attorney, said four counts of murder had been filed against Mr. Cox. He said that special charges of multiple murders could make him vulnerable to the death penalty if convicted.
Mr. Cox, a reported member of the Rolling 60's street gang, was identified as one of two suspects sought in the slayings, Comdr. William Booth, a police spokesman, said. ''We have one in custody - that is Cox,'' Commander Booth said. ''We have one someplace else. We don't know where he is.''
Gang's Reputation Is CitedLaw-enforcement sources called the Rolling 60's ''one of the most violent street gangs in the county.''
Commander Booth said that the that police did not know the identity of the second suspect but that investigators believed the men went to the wrong house for the attack. But Commander Booth said, ''We are optimistic now we will be able to identify the second suspect.''
Detectives said Mr. Cox had been jailed on a charge of being a former convict in possession of a gun.
The two men are reported to have burst into the middle-income home of Mr. Alexander's mother Aug. 31 and opened fire, killing the mother, Ebora, 59; his sister, Dietra, 24; and his two nephews, Damon Bonner, 6, and Damani Garner-Alexander, 12.
A third nephew, Ivan Bonner, 13, escaped by hiding in a closet. Mr. Alexander's younger brother, Neil, 33, also escaped uninjured, wrestling with the gunmen before they fled in a brown or maroon van.
The children had been spending vacation with their grandmother.
The four bodies were found in three rooms, each shot at least once in the head and one also shot in the chest.
Mr. Alexander, an all-American halfback at the University of California at Los Angeles, began his 11-year National Football League career in 1962 and played defensive back for the San Francisco 49ers, the Los Angeles Rams and the Phildelphia Eagles.
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