JerWilliam Ellis

JerWilliam Ellis was a young African-American living in the projects on Imperial Street in Los Angeles. He became a criminal, serving several years in juvenile detention for armed robbery.

He was identified by a San Atanasio Police Officer in a liquor store surveillance video provided by the store clerk and became the prime suspect in the murder of another liquor store operator the previous year. He was detained and locked-up pending trial for three counts of armed robbery and one count of first-degree murder.