Man Sentenced to Death for Killing Men in Car-to-Car Shooting

RIVERSIDE - A death sentence was handed down today for a Compton drug dealer who killed two men in a vehicle-to-vehicle shooting on the Riverside (91) Freeway and later attempted to gun down three boys near his house.

Jawaun Deion Graham, 35, was convicted last July of carrying out the Jan. 22, 2006, attack that claimed the lives of Manuel Gomez, 24, of Anaheim, and Joel Rio-Sosa, 26, of Moreno Valley.

Jurors recommended capital punishment on July 16, about a week after convicting Graham of two counts of first-degree murder, special circumstance allegations that multiple victims were targeted,...