In an extract from her book Those Who Wander, Vivian Ho explores the brutal experiences that led to a tragedy
In October 2015, three young drifters robbed and fatally shot Audrey Carey in the bushes of San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park and went on to kill Steve Carter for his car keys on a popular hiking trail, just over the Golden Gate Bridge.
At their sentencing, 18 months later, Chief Deputy Public Defender David Brown stood to address the packed courtroom; his client, Morrison Haze Lampley, remained seated, his unruly mop of sandy-brown hair pulled back into a neat knot. Though the emotional statements from the victims’ families had drawn tears from many in the gallery, as well as from his two co-defendants, Lampley – who goes by Haze – kept his expressionless stare focused on the table in front of him, just as he had for the majority of the legal proceedings.
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