San Pedro Man Justin Gray Convicted in Lomita Execution of Two Men Over Unpaid Cut

A federal jury has convicted a 40-year-old San Pedro man of murdering two men in Lomita in 2020, closing out a case that traced the killings back to orders issued from inside a California state prison cell. Justin Gray lured two men from the San Diego area to Lomita on October 4, 2020, then shot both victims in the head alongside another Aryan Brotherhood associate, according to court documents.

Gray, a member of the Baby Blue Wrecking Crew, was convicted of two counts of murder in aid of racketeering, according to federal prosecutors, as reported by Action News Now. Prosecutors say the killings were ordered by Francis Clement, an incarcerated Aryan Brotherhood member who directed the shootings from Kern Valley State Prison. The victims were identified at the time as Allan Roshanski, 34, of Vista, and Ruslan Magomedgadzhiev, 40, of Tarzana, according to the Times of San Diego.

A Debt That Ended in Execution

Federal prosecutors established during Clement's trial that the Lomita killing was ordered because Roshanski, a convicted pimp with Russian underworld hand tattoos, had failed to pay the Aryan Brotherhood its required cut from an illicit fraud scheme, according to the Los Angeles Times. Magomedgadzhiev was reportedly killed simply because he had accompanied Roshanski as backup that day, the same reporting notes. The Baby Blue Wrecking Crew is described by the U.S. Department of Justice as a white-only street gang based in Los Angeles County's South Bay that operates directly under the authority of the Aryan Brotherhood, acting as an enforcement and execution unit for gang leaders behind bars.

Clement had been in California state prison since 1985 on a prior murder conviction while serving a 15-years-to-life sentence, according to the Los Angeles Times, and he denied gang affiliation during state parole hearings even as he allegedly continued directing street violence. A jury convicted Clement of racketeering conspiracy and five counts of murder in aid of racketeering, and prosecutors say he was also responsible for directing three other Los Angeles County street murders in 2022, including execution-style killings in Lancaster and Pomona whose victims included Michael Brizendine, James Yagle Jr., and Ronnie Ennis Jr.

Cooperating Witness Helped Break the Case

Brandon “Bam Bam” Bannick, a fellow Baby Blue Wrecking Crew member who assisted during the Lomita killings and was originally charged alongside Gray in the federal indictment, pleaded guilty a week before trial and testified as a key government witness against Gray and Clement, the Los Angeles Times reported. U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Thurston sentenced Clement to life in federal prison without parole in May 2025, according to CBS San Francisco, a sentence that carries no possibility of parole under federal law.

Gray now faces a mandatory life sentence himself, with sentencing scheduled for November 23, 2026. Under 18 U.S.C. § 1959, a conviction for murder in aid of racketeering carries a mandatory statutory penalty of either life imprisonment or death, though federal prosecutors chose not to seek capital punishment in this case.

Contraband Phones and a Broader Federal Sweep

Trial evidence showed that incarcerated Aryan Brotherhood leaders regularly maintained operational control over street units by using contraband cellphones smuggled into California state prisons, per the same CBS San Francisco account, a systemic vulnerability that federal crackdowns have focused on heavily in recent years. Gray's prosecution was part of a much larger federal effort in the Eastern District of California targeting 21 total defendants charged with RICO conspiracy, murder in aid of racketeering, and drug trafficking, according to the Washington Times. The case against Gray was investigated by the ATF, the FBI, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, and multiple local law enforcement agencies.

The prosecution follows a string of similar convictions across California in recent years targeting the same prison-to-street pipeline. Hoodline reported on another Fresno life sentence for a senior Aryan Brotherhood leader convicted of running prison-directed murder plots and drug operations using contraband phones, part of the same pattern federal investigators have described as an operational bridge between incarcerated gang bosses and the street crews carrying out their orders.