Three men could face the death penalty after being charged Tuesday with special-circumstances murder in the fatal shooting of a longtime PC World magazine editor during a home invasion robbery in Pittsburg, authorities said.Tremaine Amos, 25, of Bay Point and Darryl Hudson and Montrell Hall, both 23 and of Pittsburg, were charged with murder, robbery and burglary in the Jan. 9 slaying of Rex Farrance, who was a senior technical editor for PC World in San Francisco.
The men were each charged with two special circumstances that could result in the death penalty if they are convicted: murder in the commission of a robbery and murder in the commission of a burglary, said Contra Costa County prosecutor Harold Jewett.
The men demanded money after bursting into Farrance's home on Argosy Court, which was filled with a large quantity of marijuana, authorities said. Farrance turned 59 two days before he was killed. His wife, Lenore Vantosh-Farrance, was pistol-whipped, and the robbers made off with a safe with guns inside, police said.
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