'Calm down!': Boyfriend annihilated girlfriend and everyone near her after she touched his beloved karaoke speaker

A California antheral was convicted of murder past week for shooting his girlfriend dead, on with her duplicate sister and brother-in-law, portion fuming implicit his prized karaoke talker being touched and the girlfriend's "lenient" parenting.

"Calm down!" Kavina Brooks shouted astatine her boyfriend, Eric Otto White, aft helium pulled a weapon connected her and her sister, Kavona Brooks-Lee, arsenic good arsenic her brother-in-law, Kenneth Lee, according to proceedings grounds reported by The Press-Enterprise.

"You're threatening somebody's life," Lee told White close earlier the August 2020 shooting. White was recovered blameworthy of first-degree execution connected April 30 successful San Bernardino County.

"When helium gets to the fork successful the road, helium decides to spell toward murder," said Deputy District Attorney Justin Crocker during closing arguments connected April 29, the Press-Enterprise reports. "Once that determination is made, it became changeable aft changeable aft changeable aft shot," Crocker recounted, portion clapping his hands to mimic gunfire.

Prosecutors said successful the criminal complaint that White utilized a handgun to termination the trio astatine Brooks' location successful Redlands. Brooks and Lee were some pronounced dormant astatine the scene, portion Kavona Brooks-Lee died aft being hospitalized and placed connected beingness support.

Brooks' daughter, who was 14 astatine the clip of the onslaught and with her ma erstwhile it unfolded, testified that White was huffy astatine Brooks and disapproved of her "lenient" parenting. He went berserk aft Brooks touched his beloved karaoke speaker, according to the daughter.

On apical of that, Brooks had asked White to determination retired and find "someone else" conscionable 1 time earlier the shooting, her girl added.

"All 3 were brutally shot," a GoFundMe says for the family.

The sisters' aunt wrote connected Facebook aft the shooting that White "also made an effort connected the beingness of Kavina's 13yr aged girl who hid immediately." Police said White went connected the tally aft the attack.

"He was bold capable to spell backmost into the location since the shooting, changed the conveyance licence plates and the quality of the vehicle," the aunt said.

White flew to Las Vegas and was arrested respective weeks later. He was allegedly diagnosed by a forensic and objective scientist with schizoaffective upset and has a past of bipolar and depressive episodes, section CW affiliate KTLA reports.

Prosecutors argued during White's proceedings that the shooting "stemmed from White sensing a nonaccomplishment of control." He is eligible for the decease punishment owed to a special-circumstances allegation of aggregate first-degree murders.

White's sentencing has not been acceptable yet.