A dispute that began at a pool party ended with a man dead in the street and, four years later, two Los Angeles-area men locked up for decades. Daven Trotter and Lee Edward Mooring were sentenced on Sept. 30 to 27 and 32 years in prison, respectively, after each accepted a no-contest plea to voluntary manslaughter in the 2022 killing of Kacy Lloyd in North Long Beach.
According to Press Telegram, Trotter, 31, of Los Angeles, and Mooring, 41, of Long Beach, entered their pleas on Sept. 23 in connection with what the outlet described as a 2022 fatal drive-by shooting. Court records reviewed by the Southern California News Group, per the same report, detail the sentencing and plea terms, though the outlet did not report further specifics of the hearing itself.
The violence traced back to Aug. 21, 2022, when Trotter reportedly showed up at a pool party attended by Geneece Shallowhorn and a friend, blocked Shallowhorn's car, and argued with her in the street, the Press Telegram reported. Trotter then left and returned with Mooring, according to the outlet's account.
A Deadly Encounter on Harbor Avenue
Lloyd, who the Press Telegram reported was 46 at the time of his death, had approached the driver's door of his pickup truck, which was parked near 67th Way and Harbor Avenue in North Long Beach. A silver BMW sedan, wrapped in matte black, traveled northbound on Harbor Avenue before muzzle flashes appeared outside its front-passenger window, and Lloyd fell to the ground, according to the outlet's reporting.
Earlier reporting from the Long Beach Post had placed the shooting at around 11:45 p.m. in the 6700 block of Harbor Avenue, with Lloyd standing next to his parked car when a gunman approached and opened fire, striking him in the upper body — details homicide detectives relayed at the time. That earlier Long Beach Post account identified Lloyd as 48 years old, a detail that conflicts with the 46 years reported by the Press Telegram.
Police said at the time that a motive for the shooting had not been determined, though they had previously said it may have been gang-related, the Long Beach Post reported.
How Investigators Linked the Suspects
Trotter and Mooring were ultimately linked to the shooting through surveillance video and cellphone-location data, per the Press Telegram's account. Investigators also reportedly recovered a key piece of physical evidence: after Trotter brought his silver BMW sedan to a woman's home in San Pedro, that woman found a shell casing inside the car, the outlet reported. Trotter is suspected of driving the BMW during the shooting, while Mooring is suspected of having fired shots at Lloyd from the passenger seat, according to the same reporting. Trotter also admitted involvement in a shootout, the Press Telegram reported.
Trotter and Shallowhorn were arrested three months after the shooting, with Mooring arrested afterward, according to the outlet's account. Patch had reported at the time that Long Beach police arrested Daven Trotter and Geneece Shallowhorn on suspicion of murder in connection with Lloyd's death, describing Trotter as a Los Angeles resident and Shallowhorn as a Long Beach resident. Separately, the Long Beach Post had reported that Mooring, whom it identified at the time as 37 years old, was arrested on suspicion of murder after detectives tracked him down near the 2000 block of Cedar Avenue — an age that conflicts with the 41 years reported by the Press Telegram. The Long Beach Post's earlier reporting had also identified Trotter as 27 years old at the time of his arrest, differing from the 31 years reported by the Press Telegram.
A Separate Plea for the Third Defendant
Shallowhorn's case resolved differently. She pleaded no contest to accessory after the fact in October 2025 and was sentenced to time served and two years of probation, the Press Telegram reported, well ahead of the sentences handed down to Trotter and Mooring a year later.
