Kermit Alexander

Certco Inc., a Tustin environmental consulting company, will open an office in the Crenshaw district and hire 40 people as part of an effort to rebuild the riot-torn areas. The company, which provides environmental risk reports for small businesses and financial institutions, plans to open an office in the Santa Barbara Plaza shopping center on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.

A citizens committee has been formed to encourage implementation of Police Department changes advocated by the now-disbanded Christopher Commission. Here are the 43 business, civic and community leaders on the panel and their business affiliations: * Aileen Adams--city of Los Angeles Fire Department commissioner. * Kermit Alexander--National Golf & Tennis Inc. * Roy A. Anderson--Lockheed Corp. * H.F. (Bert) Boeckmann II--Galpin Motors. * John E. Bryson--Southern California Edison Co.

Like many other matrimonial couples, Jacques Kermit Alexander, 35, and his bride, Kelly Lynn Fisher, 20, held hands and smiled warmly at each other Thursday during their brief civil ceremony in San Fernando Superior Court. But there was no wedding cake or reception. And there won't be a honeymoon. Just minutes before performing the nuptials, Judge Howard J. Schwab had sentenced the Mission Hills couple to prison for kidnaping and armed robbery.

After nine days of deliberation, the jury in the Horace Burns murder trial was forced to begin its work anew Wednesday after a reluctant juror, who had earlier threatened to walk out on the panel without permission, was officially excused. George Dowell, 72, was dismissed from the panel by Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Aurelio Munoz after the retired firefighter submitted a doctor's note recommending that Dowell take two weeks off to recover from hypertension.

Despite having convicted Darren Charles Williams of four counts of first-degree murder in the 1984 execution-style murders of relatives of former pro football star Kermit Alexander, a jury deadlocked Monday on whether the crime made Williams eligible for the death penalty. Describing Williams, 26, as the instigator of the murders, Deputy Dist. Atty. Sterling E.

The courtroom drama was reaching its peak, with murder defendant Horace (Horse) Burns being grilled about his role in the mistaken-identity shooting of four members of a South-Central Los Angeles family. As hushed jurors leaned forward, Burns solemnly sought to explain a jailhouse letter in which he appeared to acknowledge his complicity in the deaths of the relatives of former football star Kermit Alexander.

The National Physique Committee Tournament of Champions will be held Saturday at Redondo High School. Prejudging begins at 11 a.m. and the finals at 6:30 p.m. Among local entrants, bodybuilder Shane McColgan of Hermosa Beach will team with Cheryl Sandy of Los Angeles to defend the mixed pairs posing title. The event will be shown later on cable TV's ESPN. For information and ticket prices call (714) 683-3122, (213) 424-8373, Ticketmaster, May Co. or Music Plus. Malibu's Surfrider Beach on Aug.

You'll see a lot of dead people with real bullet holes in them in "I Am a Gun" (tonight at 9 on KHJ-TV Channel 9). You'll see the grainy, black-and-white footage of a holdup in a minimarket, taped by the store's surveillance cameras, and you'll hear the pop-pop-pop of the handgun and the off-camera moans of a dying clerk.

USC linebacker Lofa Tatupu was questionable for Saturday's game against UCLA because of a chest injury, but there was no second-guessing the wisdom of letting him play. His interception of a Drew Olson pass at the Bruin 25 with 6:11 to play led to a Ryan Killeen field goal that gave USC a 29-17 lead and helped slow the momentum of a Bruin team sensing an upset. Rejoicing after his team's 29-24 triumph, Tatupu pointed to his sternum pad, which is 1 1/2 inches thick.

A 23-member commission was named Monday by state Atty. Gen. John Van de Kamp to find the "ideal" program for combatting the problem of drug and alcohol abuse among California teen-agers. The battle "must start before experimentation with drugs and alcohol begins," Van de Kamp said during a news conference at Saticoy Elementary School in North Hollywood. He noted that such experimentation begins in California "at a shockingly early age."