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Status:
Sentenced to life in prison in Oregon in 1996. Sentenced to
death in California on March 16,
1999
Roger Hoan Brady was charged with the murder of Officer Martin Ganz
after he was arrested in Vancouver, Washington for committing an armed
robbery near Portland Oregon, then shooting and killing a 55 year old
woman who witnessed his crime. A witness saw the shooting and followed
Roger Brady as he made his escape. A few blocks from the crime scene,
Roger Brady stopped his get away car and shot at this witness with a
high powered rifle.
Roger Brady was convicted of these crimes, and sentenced to life
without parole in an Oregon State Prison. On August 1, 1996, Roger Brady
was extradited to Los Angeles to stand trial for the murder of Officer
Martin Ganz. Officer Ganz's family does not live in the Los Angeles area,
and they had to commute to the trial.
On Thursday, November 19, 1998, Roger Brady was convicted of first
degree murder with special circumstances for the murder of Officer Ganz.
After the penalty phase of the trial, the Jury returned with a verdict
of Death for Roger Hoan Brady for the murder of Officer Martin Ganz.
On Tuesday, March 16th, 1999, Roger Brady was sentenced to the death
penalty in Superior Court, Department L, Torrance, California.
Roger Brady will be serving his sentence at San Quentin State Prison
while awaiting his appeal, which is automatic for death penalty
convictions.
Roger Hoan Brady
Sentenced: March 16, 1999, age 33
Residence: Malibu
Crime: Murder of a police officer
Date of crime: Dec. 27, 1993
Location: Next to Bank of America, Manhattan Village, Manhattan Beach
Victim: Manhattan Beach police officer Martin Ganz
Status: On appeal, not briefed
Ganz interrupted the career bank and supermarket robber as he likely
was headed to rob the Ralph’s supermarket at Manhattan Village.
Noticing Brady’s car had crossed the limit line on Sepulveda
Boulevard, the 29-year-old officer pulled Brady over and walked up to
his car.
Brady immediately pulled a gun and opened fire, wounding Ganz in the
shoulder. Ganz retreated and collapsed. Brady chased him, stood over him
and fired into his back and face.
Brady then pointed his gun at Ganz’s patrol car, where the officer’s
12-year-old nephew, Don, sat frightened while on a Christmas break
ridealong.
After eight months, Brady killed Catalina Correa, 55, of Portland as
he fled a Beaverton, Ore., supermarket robbery where she had been a
customer.
Jurors in Oregon spared Brady the death penalty.
Torrance jurors did not.
Roger Hoan Brady
CALIFORNIA: A convicted killer has pleaded innocent to
gunning down a Manhattan Beach police officer during a routine traffic
stop in 1993. Roger Hoan Brady, 31, entered his plea on Tuesday in
Torrance Superior Court.
Brady is already serving a life sentence for the
August 1994 shooting death of Catalina Correa, a 55-year-old nurse
outside a grocery store near Portland, Oregon, following a robbery.
He could face the death penalty if convicted of
the December 1993 slaying of police Officer Martin Ganz, the 1st
Manhattan Beach police officer to be killed in the line of duty.
Ganz, 29, was shot to death as he approached a
car he had stopped in the Manhattan Village mall, and the gunman
followed Ganz as he tried to retreat behind his patrol car.
The officer's young nephew was riding along with
him that night and could be among the witnesses called to testify
against Brady.
Authorities said Brady became the primary
suspect in Ganz's killing after ballistics tests showed that a handgun
seized at his home "compared identically" with the gun used to kill the
officer. Brady, who is being held without bail, is set to return to
court June 6 for a pre-trial hearing.
SEX:M RACE: W TYPE: N MOTIVE: CE-felony
MO:
Armed robber; killed policeman and female holdup victim.
DISPOSITION:
Life term in Ore.; condemned in Calif., 1998.
Officer Martin Ganz,
29, the 1st
Manhattan Beach police officer
to be killed in the line of duty.
