Teen With Ties To Santa Barbara Arrested In Bay Area Killings
NewsChannel 3 has learned one of three drifters accused of gunning down two people in the Bay Area last month is from Santa Barbara.
Family friends confirm Lila Scott Alligood and her family lived above Foothill Road off upper State Street up until roughly 2004.
Santa Barbara school officials confirm, Alligood attended the now-closed Circle of Friends preschool, then Peabody Charter Elementary School before moving to Hawaii.
San Francisco police say 18-year-old Alligood, 24-year-old Sean Michael Angold, and 23-year-old Morrison Haze Lampley gunned down 23-year-old Audrey Carey, of Quebec, in Golden Gate Park. Her body was found October 3rd.
Police say the three drifters then shot and killed 67-year-old Steve Carter, a yoga instructor from Marin County, on a hiking trial in that county. Carter’s dog was also shot but still alive when Carter’s body was found on October 5th.
The three suspects were arrested last week at a soup kitchen in Portland, Oregon and were taken under guard Monday to the Marin County Jail where they were processed and booked. The defendants are expected to make their first court appearance as early as Tuesday although it is unclear if they have legal representation.
Detectives say the gun used to kill Carey and Carter was stolen from a parked car near Fisherman’s Wharf.
Back in July, another stolen gun found near the wharf was used to kill Kate Steinle, a former Cal Poly student. Juan Lopez Sanchez, an undocumented immigrant from Mexico, was arrested and charged with Steinle’s murder.
A Santa Barbara school official, who did not want to be named, remembered Alligood well and had found memories of her as an elementary school student.
“She was a good kid and very friendly,” the woman said. “We (employees at the school) loved the mom.”
Locals who still keep in touch with Alligood’s mother, Marta, say she is heartbroken and struggled for years to rein in her daughter when she repeatedly fell in with the wrong crowd while living in Hawaii.
Bay Area investigators are looking to see if other crimes are linked to the three suspects.
