Grand Jury Indicts Cooper, Cooks, & Juvenile Involved In Anibal Mendoza's Murder

On Wednesday, August 27th, 2008 the Pinal County Superior Court, Grand Jury indicted twenty year old Thais Lamar Cooper for Second degree murder, a class #1 felony, in the death of Anibal D. Mendoza. Also indicted were, twenty-one year old Johnny Lee Cooks for Aggravated Assault, a class #3 felony in reference to shooting at a juvenile who was with Anibal D. Mendoza at the time of the murder, and a seventeen year old juvenile transferred to adult court for Aggravated Assault a class #3 felony for firing into a group of juveniles and striking at least one of those juveniles prior to the murder on Sunday, August 17th, 2008.