On the morning of August 31, 1984, eight-year-old Damon Bonner was shot and killed in Los Angeles during a mistaken, retaliatory attack on a family home. Damon was visiting his grandmother Ebora Alexander with his cousin Damani Garner-Alexander when two gang members entered the house. The intruders, later identified as Tiequon Cox and Horace Edwin Burns, were seeking revenge for a prior incident involving a drug dealer but had the wrong address. Also killed in the attack were Damon’s grandmother Ebora, his aunt Dietra Alexander, and his cousin Damani.

Investigators tied the two men to the Rollin 60s Crips. Cox, 18 at the time, was identified as the shooter and Burns, 20, as an accomplice; both faced first-degree murder charges. The prosecutions argued the killings were retaliatory and premeditated despite the fatal mistake in target. Cox and Burns were convicted and sentenced to life without parole in 1987.