Murder Charge Filed in Death of Dean at LA Technical School

By Jaimie DingThe Related Press

LOS ANGELES (AP) — A safety guard was charged Might 6 with homicide within the capturing demise of the dean of a small technical faculty close to Los Angeles, officers stated.

The dean of scholar affairs, Cameisha Denise Clark, died on the hospital Might 5 after being shot three days earlier on the Spartan Faculty of Aeronautics and Know-how campus in Inglewood, in line with household. One other feminine worker was wounded within the capturing.

Jesse Figueroa, 40, was charged with homicide, tried homicide and several other counts for possessing a firearm as a felon. He additionally faces gun sentencing enhancements, which may result in extra penalties when a gun is used throughout a criminal offense.

Figueroa will seem in court docket Might 29 and faces a most sentence of life in state jail if convicted as charged. His public defender didn’t reply to a request for remark.

The technical faculty’s campus president, Chris Becker, stated Figueroa labored for an organization that gives safety to the college.

Inglewood Mayor James Butts stated final week it seemed to be an incident of office violence, however charging paperwork didn’t lay out a potential motive.

Clark’s household stated she had been lately promoted to dean on the faculty.

“Cameisha uplifted everybody lucky sufficient to cross her path,” her household stated in a press release to KNBC. “Her management, integrity, and deep sense of goal helped form futures of numerous college students from the campus of Clark Atlanta College to Spartan Faculty. She believed within the potential of others even once they couldn’t but see it in themselves.”

Clark was a graduate of Clark Atlanta College, an HBCU in Atlanta, Ga., the place she has robust familial ties. The college stated it’s making a $10,000 scholarship fund in her honor.

“Dr. Cameisha Clark exemplified the Panther spirit,” stated Dr. George T. French Jr., president of Clark Atlanta College, within the assertion. “She lived with goal, led with coronary heart, and leaves behind a legacy that may proceed to uplift and encourage the CAU Nation for generations to return.”