Teen Arrested in Slaying of Serviceman

A Compton teen-ager was arrested last week on suspicion of murder and attempted murder in the shooting death of an Air Force enlisted man as the airman sat in a car at a Torrance intersection with friends, police said.

Rickey Moore, 18, allegedly shot Daryl J. Webb, 20, of Compton on Hawthorne Boulevard after Webb either glanced at Moore’s girlfriend or made a comment to her outside South Bay Bowl, police said.

Moore’s arraignment in South Bay Municipal Court was delayed Wednesday until Oct. 17. He is being held without bail.

Webb and three friends, who left the bowling alley shortly before midnight because it was closing, were sitting at a stoplight near Hawthorne and Artesia Boulevard when Moore and his girlfriend pulled up next to them. Moore, a member of a Compton gang, allegedly flashed gang signs at the group and fired at them with a .38-caliber revolver. Webb, who was stationed at Nellis Air Force Base in Las Vegas, was the only person injured, according to police.

Although Webb’s friends were not injured, the attempted murder charges against Moore are the result of firing at them.

Police filed a complaint of accessory to murder against Moore’s 17-year-old girlfriend, whose name was not released because of her age. She is being held at Los Padrinos Juvenile Hall in Downey.

Police said they identified Moore after local television stations broadcast a videotape of him taken by a remote camera outside the bowling alley. Investigators received several anonymous telephone calls, two of which led to the identification of Moore.

Moore was arrested Monday afternoon in Lynwood, and his girlfriend was arrested later the same day in Los Angeles.