Jacqueline Avant, left, and Clarence Avant seem on the eleventh Annual AAFCA Awards in Los Angeles on Jan. 22, 2020. (Photograph by Mark Von Holden Invision/AP, File)
LOS ANGELES --
A 30-year-old man pleaded responsible Thursday to the homicide of philanthropist Jacqueline Avant, the spouse of legendary music govt Clarence Avant.
Aariel Maynor pleaded responsible within the deadly taking pictures of Avant and the tried homicide of her safety guard at her Beverly Hills dwelling in December, Los Angeles County prosecutors mentioned.
Maynor additionally pleaded responsible to possession of a firearm by a felon and two counts of housebreaking.
He's scheduled to be sentenced on March 30 and might be sentenced to as much as 170 years in jail, prosecutors mentioned.
"This crime continues to shock the conscience," District Lawyer George Gascon mentioned in a press release. "Mrs. Avant's demise was a tragic loss felt by our complete neighborhood."
Gascon mentioned Maynor can be ineligible for aged parole.
Police have been known as to the Avants' dwelling early on the morning of Dec. 1 and located Jacqueline Avant, 81, with a gunshot wound. She was taken to the hospital however didn't survive.
He additionally fired on a safety guard, authorities mentioned. Neither the guard nor Clarence Avant was harm.
An hour later, Los Angeles law enforcement officials arrested Maynor, a parolee who had shot himself within the foot at a house within the Hollywood Hills about 7 miles (11.27 kilometers) away. He was arrested for housebreaking, and hours later was tied to the Avant taking pictures.
Authorities have mentioned he was burglarizing each houses, they usually do not imagine he was concentrating on the Avants.
Jacqueline Avant was a longtime native philanthropist who led organizations that helped low-income neighborhoods together with Watts and South Los Angeles, and was on the board of administrators of the Worldwide Pupil Heart on the College of California, Los Angeles.
Grammy-winning govt Clarence Avant is named the "Godfather of Black Music" and was inducted into the Rock & Roll Corridor of Fame final 12 months. The 91-year-old was additionally a live performance promoter and supervisor who mentored and helped the careers of artists together with Invoice Withers, Little Willie John, L.A. Reid, Babyface, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.
The Avants have been married for 54 years and had two youngsters, Alexander Du Bois Avant and Nicole Avant, a movie producer and former U.S. ambassador to the Bahamas who's married to Netflix co-CEO and Chief Content material Officer Ted Sarandos.
Jacqueline Avant's charitable work and private connections made her a broadly beloved determine. After her demise, tributes to her got here from former President Invoice Clinton, Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Quincy Jones, who mentioned "The heaviness of my coronary heart at present is in contrast to some other that I've ever skilled."
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