Man Gets Life in Prison for Killing Security Guard
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LONG BEACH — A Superior Court judge sentenced Garrick Christopher Harrington to life in prison without parole Thursday for the 1993 fatal stabbing of a security guard at the shipyard company from which he had been fired three months earlier.
Harrington, 41, a former employee at Metropolitan Stevedore Co., was not implicated in the murder of Donald Clemmey, 69, until 1997, when investigators found him in Sacramento and matched his fingerprint to one left on a shipping schedule left on Clemmey’s lap, said Victoria Pipkin, a Los Angeles County district attorney’s spokeswoman.
Investigators also used a blood sample from Harrington to link his DNA to scrapings taken from beneath Clemmey’s fingernails, Pipkin said Friday.
In November, a jury convicted Harrington on one count of first-degree murder and one count of murder while committing a robbery for having stolen Clemmey’s paycheck.
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