Homicide suspect serving 15 years

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Sary Svay was in Department 31 for a preliminary hearing Sept. 12, 2011, at the county courthouse in downtown Stockton charged with killing two unarmed security guards at an apartment complex.CLIFFORD OTO/The Record

February 27, 2012 12:00 AM

STOCKTON - Sary Svay, suspected of gunning down two unarmed security guards in June 2009, now sits in a prison cell outside Delano.

The 26-year-old Stockton man - originally eligible for the death penalty in a double homicide - is instead serving a 15-year sentence on reduced charges in an unrelated shooting.

Murder charges were dropped as part of a plea deal reached last month. Svay, an alleged member of a southeast Asian gang, has been sent to North Kern State Prison.

As part of the plea agreement, he admitted to firing at a woman in her car.

Svay was arrested after authorities said he later shot two AdForce security guards in the parking lot of Park Village apartments in central Stockton.

Claude Eugene McCormick, 50, and Iscar Eguis-Cazares, 46, were found inside their AdForce cars parked next to each other with multiple gunshot wounds.

Stockton police officers believe the two security guards had previously asked Svay to leave the apartment complex.

In a preliminary hearing last fall, a Stockton police detective testified that Svay possibly interpreted their actions as disrespect.

It was one more incident in a stream of violence caused by Svay in an attempt to restore his tough-gangster reputation after stories arose that Svay had homosexual encounters, according to the detective's testimony.

Svay also had been suspected of choking a 12-year-old boy and shooting a former gang member.

A judge ruled in September that enough facts were presented by prosecutors to hold Svay before a jury. The double-homicide charges made him eligible for death.

But instead of a trial, the defendant agreed to the plea deal and was sentenced in late January to 15 years in state prison.

Prosecutors did not have sufficient evidence to tie Svay to the two security guard killings.

Contact reporter Jennie Rodriguez-Moore at (209) 943-8564 or jrodriguez@recordnet.com. Visit her blog at recordnet.com/courtsblog.

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