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Kenneth Earl Gray, 65, and a co-defendant were convicted of killing LAPD Officer Paul Verna, 35, following a traffic stop in the Lake View Terrace neighborhood on June 2, 1983...

Officer Paul Verna was killed during a traffic stop in Lake View Terrace.

The man thrice convicted of killing of a Los Angeles Police Department motorcycle officer in a brutal 1983 Lake View Terrace shooting was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

In a retrial of the murder of a Los Angeles police officer, Kenneth Gay, who was accused of fatally shooting the officer during a traffic stop in 1983, has been convicted again.

Kenneth Gay was once again convicted of the brazen 1983 killing of LAPD Officer Paul Verna. The decades-old case landed back in an L.A. County courtroom after Gay's initial conviction was overturned.

Kenneth Gay was once again convicted of the brazen 1983 killing of LAPD Officer Paul Verna. The decades-old case landed back in an L.A. County courtroom after Gay's initial conviction was overturned.

For decades, Gay has maintained that another man fired every shot during the fatal encounter.

Law Enforcement News Jury To Decide Fate Of Kenneth Gay, Facing Trial Again In 1983 Death Of LAPD Officer Paul Verna In the summer of 1983, Los Angeles Police Department Officer Paul Verna was on patrol on his motorcycle in Lake View Terrace when he spotted a gray, two-door Oldsmobile Cutlass on the road. He flashed his lights at the driver, who pulled over on Hoyt Street, a

Law Enforcement News LAPD Officer’s Alleged Killer Stands Trial Again After Conviction In 1983 Case Was Tossed A little more than four decades have passed since Paul Verna’s final day as a police officer. The 35-year-old motorcycle cop thought he was making a routine traffic stop on June 2, 1983, prosecutors said. But he had pulled over a vehicle occupied by four people who’d

Kenneth Gay was convicted of gunning down LAPD Officer Paul Verna during a 1983 traffic stop, but his conviction was thrown out by the California Supreme Court in 2020. Now Gay is standing trial again.