Antoine Eugene Twan Miller

At the intersection of Florence and Normandie, where television cameras caught the violent early moments of the Los Angeles riots, the 8-Trey Gangster Crips have established their stronghold. From this corner, where trucker Reginald O. Denny was brutally beaten, the loose affiliation of about 350 gang members claims an impoverished territory that runs roughly from Gage Avenue on the North to Manchester Avenue on the South and from Van Ness Avenue on the West to Vermont Avenue on the East.

Antoine Eugene Miller, part of the mob that attacked trucker Reginald Denny in the first hours of the 1992 Los Angeles riots, died a week after being shot during an altercation outside a Hollywood nightclub, police said. Miller was shot at 2:40 a.m. Super Bowl Sunday in a parking lot across from a nightclub in the 1600 block of Schrader Boulevard, said Los Angeles Police Department homicide Det. Mike Thrasher.

Community fund-raising efforts to pay for the legal defense of four suspects accused in the April 29 attack on truck driver Reginald O. Denny have been churning away for several weeks, but family members and lawyers representing the suspects say they have yet to see a penny. In part, that is because the leading fund-raising campaign--sponsored by Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church and endorsed by several of the lawyers and family members--has just started.

Antoine Miller, one of the men convicted of beating truck driver Reginald Denny during the Los Angeles riots in 1992, has been acquitted of stealing $252 worth of cigarettes from a Fountain Valley drugstore. The 25-year-old was arrested in March in a car with two other men and 12 cartons of cigarettes stolen from the store. An Orange County jury acquitted him Wednesday, ending the prospect of a seven-year prison term.

In a series of pre-dawn raids Tuesday, special teams from the FBI and the Los Angeles Police Department arrested three men allegedly responsible for the beating of truck driver Reginald O. Denny--an attack that has come to symbolize the violent rage that swept through the city. A fourth man turned himself in a few hours later, authorities said. All four suspects were said to be members of, or affiliated with, the 8-Trey Gangster Crips, one of Los Angeles' most notorious street gangs.

A judge rejected arguments Thursday that three of four suspects in the April 29 beating of Reginald O. Denny should be denied bail, but set the amounts so high that families and supporters of the accused men said they would be hard-pressed to post it. Municipal Judge William R. Chidsey Jr. set bail amounts ranging from $160,000 to $195,000 for the three main suspects in the case. The fourth suspect, Gary Anthony Williams, is not charged with beating Denny but with second-degree robbery.

Damian Monroe (Football) Williams not only beat motorists but also directed some of the attacks that left more than a dozen people injured in the April 29 rioting at Florence and Normandie avenues, according to an investigation report.

Three of the four men accused in the videotaped beating of truck driver Reginald O. Denny will be charged today with earlier assaulting a "large number" of victims--including a high-ranking Los Angeles fire battalion chief and a child--in the early stages of last month's riots, authorities said Wednesday.

In law--as in sports or on the battlefield--the best defense sometimes is a good offense. And no one is playing tougher offense than the lawyers who are defending one of four young men charged in the April 29 beating and robbery of truck driver Reginald O. Denny. With a fusillade of public comments, charges and insinuations, lawyers and a spokesman for the Center for Constitutional Law and Justice have launched what promises to be a no-holds-barred campaign for Damian Monroe (Football) Williams.

Three men accused of beating truck driver Reginald O. Denny in the early hours of the Los Angeles rioting will face an array of state and federal charges, including attempted murder and interfering with interstate commerce, top local and federal prosecutors announced Wednesday. A fourth suspect will be charged with robbery, but will not be prosecuted federally, authorities said. All four are scheduled to be arraigned today, and prosecutors said they would ask the court to deny bail.

Antoine Miller, one of the men convicted of beating truck driver Reginald Denny during the Los Angeles riots in 1992, has been acquitted of stealing $252 worth of cigarettes from a Fountain Valley drugstore. The 25-year-old was arrested in March in a car with two other men and 12 cartons of cigarettes stolen from the store. An Orange County jury acquitted him Wednesday, ending the prospect of a seven-year prison term.

Antoine Miller, a former defendant in the Reginald O. Denny beating case, was ordered Monday to stand trial on a charge of being an ex-felon in possession of a firearm. After a brief preliminary hearing, Los Angeles Municipal Judge Michael Pastor ruled there was sufficient evidence to hold Miller, 22, for trial on the allegation that he possessed a semiautomatic pistol on Aug. 26 and violated his parole. The counts stemmed from an Aug.

A man on probation for assaulting a motorist during the early hours of the Los Angeles riots pleaded not guilty Tuesday to a gun possession charge but was jailed when a judge found him in violation of his probation. Antoine Miller, 22, faces a maximum six-year prison sentence if convicted of the charge of being an ex-felon in possession of a firearm, a Los Angeles County district attorney's office spokesman said.

Antoine Eugene Miller, who became a symbol of the Los Angeles riots for his role in the attack on truck driver Reginald O. Denny, was arrested Friday on suspicion of trying to shoot a motorist just three blocks from a flash point of the riots at Florence and Normandie avenues. Miller, 22, is accused of trying to fire a 9-millimeter semiautomatic pistol at a driver from point-blank range after an argument, said Deputy Chief Mark Kroeker of the Los Angeles Police Department.

Antoine Eugene Miller, once a defendant in the Reginald O. Denny beating trial, pleaded guilty Tuesday to felonious assault and two misdemeanor charges in exchange for 27 months probation and no prison time.

A radio and television reporter who broadcast live coverage of rioting at Florence and Normandie avenues testified Friday that he saw defendant Damian Monroe Williams hit trucker Reginald O. Denny in the head with a brick. After hitting Denny, Williams "did a pirouette, a turn, and made a victory sign with his hands and fingers," said Robert A. Tur, who reported from a helicopter hovering over the intersection. "Are you absolutely certain this man in the courtroom is the man who threw the brick?"

Supporters of a man charged in attacks on seven motorists in the early hours of the Los Angeles riots said Wednesday they have accumulated enough money to post his bail, raising the possibility that he could go free as early as next week. But before Damian Monroe (Football) Williams, 19, can be released, a special hearing must be held to determine whether the property used to secure his bail was acquired legally. And that condition angered Williams' supporters, especially his mother.

Three reputed gang members accused of beating truck driver Reginald O. Denny were charged on Thursday with attacking 12 earlier victims in a series of violent assaults and robberies that took place during the early moments of the Los Angeles riots.

One of three defendants accused in the beating of trucker Reginald O. Denny was granted a separate trial Monday, but the judge in the case rejected a defense allegation that the defendants are victims of discriminatory prosecution. In a surprise development, Superior Court Judge John W. Ouderkirk ruled that Antoine Eugene Miller, 21, should be tried separately from Damian Monroe Williams, 20, and Henry Keith Watson, 28.