Roger Hoan Brady shot and killed 29-year-old Officer Martin Ganz on December 27, 1993, according to the Officer Down Memory Lane page. The court ordered his execution in 1999 for killing Ganz. Since then, the convict tried to overturn this verdict multiple times. But the court rejected all of Brady’s attempts. However, in 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom ordered the ban of the death penalty across the state.
According to The Cinemaholic, Roger Hoan Brady is currently at the California Medical Facility. This facility is situated in Solano County, California.
This heartbreaking case will be covered in the upcoming episode of The Real Murders of Los Angeles, which will air on Oxygen. This episode titled Blue Bloodshed will air on November 17, 2023, at 9:00 p.m. ET.
The official synopsis of Blue Bloodshed reads, “When a recently engaged Manhattan Beach police officer is gunned down during a routine traffic stop, detectives rely on the eyewitness account of a traumatized young boy to track down a cold-blooded killer.”
How did Roger Hoan Brady kill Officer Martin Ganz?
On December 27, 1993, at approximately 11:15 p.m. Roger Hoan Brady shot and killed Martin Ganz in a parking lot. According to the Officer Down Memory Lane page, this incident took place in a parking lot. When the 29-year-old was outside the patrol car, the gunman exited from his car and shot at him multiple times. The victim tried to take cover. However, the damage had already been done.
Ganz was accompanied by his 12-year-old nephew, who was in the patrol car. Brady also attempted to shoot at the young boy but his gun misfired. The boy was not harmed. Officials apprehended Roger Hoan Brady approximately eight months after this incident. Furthermore, the 29-year-old victim was engaged to a courtroom clerk named Pamela Ham.