4 Men Charged In Murder Of Redondo Beach Registered Sex Offender

REDONDO BEACH, CA – Four men from various cities in the South Bay were charged Friday with killing a Redondo Beach registered sex offender. The group of men allegedly strangled and attacked John Haig Marshall, 61, with pliers and bolt cutters when he got out of his shower on Nov. 28, according to The Beach Reporter. The attack happened five years after he was sent to prison for drugging a young male friend, shaving his body hair and sexually assaulting him in that same shower area, according to The Beach Reporter. There were allegations that Marshall had molested more than a dozen other victims since the 1970s.

Whether or not the homicide was linked to Marshall's sex offender status was unclear – the complaint filed at the Torrance courthouse alleges the men also committed a home invasion robbery.

The four men charged were Taylor John Cervantes, 22, of Hawthorne; Tyler Lee Stark, 24, of Torrance; Myles Jorge Sawyer, 25, of Torrance; and his brother, Brandon Scott Takeo Sawyer, 23, of Torrance. The group made appearances together Friday in Torrance court, but their arraignment was postponed until Jan. 30, according to The Beach Reporter.

Judge Thomas Sokolov ordered them to be held in county jail without bail.

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