Who killed surfer named emery kauanui?
It was just past midnight on a Thursday evening in late May when 24-year-old Emery Kauanui and another man were kicked out of the La Jolla Brewhouse for fighting. A few hours later four men showed up at Kauanui’s La Jolla residence and beat him senseless– and eventually to death. The four men have all been arrested and may be charged with murder, pending the outcome of a preliminary investigation by the San Diego Police Department. The four men, Seth Cravens 21; Eric House, 20; Orlando Osuna, 22; and Matthew Yanke, 20; are members of a makeshift La Jolla gang known as the Bird Rock Bandits. According to the source the gang beat up another man the week prior to the Emery Kauanui incident. The senselessness of the incident is what makes this tragedy even harder to come to terms with. A sentiment echoed by all that are close to Emery. “Twenty-four is obviously just too young to go and I feel sorry for all the families involved,” said Todd Bartlett, owner of Liquid Foundation surf shop. “
A man described in court as a bully who terrorized his community was sentenced Monday to 20 years to life in the death of a professional surfer, a crime that gained national notoriety as the Bird Rock Bandit case. Seth Cravens, 23, was found guilty Nov. 18 of second-degree murder and other charges in the death of Emery Kauanui Jr., 24, of La Jolla. Before the sentence was handed down Cravens, seated and dressed in green jail-issued clothing, turned to the packed courtroom and apologized. “I just want to say sorry to Emery’s family. I’m so sorry that this happened. Sorry for your loss,” he said. “I do pray that you find some kind of peace and comfort. I’m sorry for my own family . . . everybody that had to go through this with me. I’m really sorry.” Kauanui died in a hospital four days after he and Cravens got into a fight in front of Kauanui’s home on Draper Avenue around 1 a.m. on May 24, 2007. Cravens and four other men had gone to the house, intent on retaliation, after Kauanui had
Seth Cravens was found guilty of the murder of Emery Kauanui. A San Diego Superior Court jury found Seth Cravens guilty of second-degree murder Tuesday in the fatal beating last year of a professional surfer in La Jolla. Prosecutors had contended that Cravens, 22, was one of a group of five men who attacked Emery Kauanui, 24, on May 24, 2007, outside Kauanui’s mother’s home. Cravens’ attorney, Mary Ellen Attridge, had told jurors that her client acted in self-defense. Prosecutors contended that the only person who acted in self-defense was Kauanui, who suffered a skull fracture and died in the hospital four days later. Sources: http://surf.transworld.
It was just past midnight on a Thursday evening in late May when 24-year-old Emery Kauanui and another man were kicked out of the La Jolla Brewhouse for fighting. A few hours later four men showed up at Kauanui’s La Jolla residence and beat him senseless– and eventually to death. The four men have all been arrested and may be charged with murder, pending the outcome of a preliminary investigation by the San Diego Police Department. The four men, Seth Cravens 21; Eric House, 20; Orlando Osuna, 22; and Matthew Yanke, 20; are members of a makeshift La Jolla gang known as the Bird Rock Bandits. According to the source the gang beat up another man the week prior to the Emery Kauanui incident. The senselessness of the incident is what makes this tragedy even harder to come to terms with. A sentiment echoed by all that are close to Emery. “Twenty-four is obviously just too young to go and I feel sorry for all the families involved,” said Todd Bartlett, owner of Liquid Foundation surf shop. “
A man described in court as a bully who terrorized his community was sentenced Monday to 20 years to life in the death of a professional surfer, a crime that gained national notoriety as the Bird Rock Bandit case. Seth Cravens, 23, was found guilty Nov. 18 of second-degree murder and other charges in the death of Emery Kauanui Jr., 24, of La Jolla. Before the sentence was handed down Cravens, seated and dressed in green jail-issued clothing, turned to the packed courtroom and apologized. “I just want to say sorry to Emery’s family. I’m so sorry that this happened. Sorry for your loss,” he said. “I do pray that you find some kind of peace and comfort. I’m sorry for my own family . . . everybody that had to go through this with me. I’m really sorry.” Kauanui died in a hospital four days after he and Cravens got into a fight in front of Kauanui’s home on Draper Avenue around 1 a.m. on May 24, 2007. Cravens and four other men had gone to the house, intent on retaliation, after Kauanui had
