As a child in the late 1970s, Kevin Dykes accidentally killed his best friend when they were

playing with a gun, sending him to Juve for involuntary manslaughter.

When he got out, he turned to petty drug dealing in Compton, California.

Fast forward to 1986, after a terrible assault that led to a four-month hospital stint,

Kevin continued peddling drugs from his temporary wheelchair for two men named Slim and Hondo.

Kevin rented a bed in a trailer home in his landlord's driveway where Slim and Hondo

occasionally hid weapons.

That June, two incidents occurred just days apart, resulting in one murder and two attempted

murders.

The first during a party when Kevin booted his friend E from for being allegedly drunk,

Slim and Hondo followed E from stabbing him several times.

A neighborhood mother, Mrs. Bradley, came to E from aid only to get stabbed as well.

Kevin intervened, jumping from his wheelchair to stop the assault before it turned fatal.

A few days later, Slim and Hondo accused Kevin's friend Otis Perry of stealing their gun

from Kevin's trailer home, stabbing him 81 times.

Unable to stop the murderous frenzy and fearing for his own life, Kevin helped them clean

up before going to the police a few hours later.

A few days after that, Kevin was arrested for cocaine possession and put into a special

holding tank for state's witnesses.

Then, three jailhouse stitches claimed that Kevin had confessed to all three attacks in

exchange for leniency in their own cases.

Kevin Dix is serving life in prison on the word of three notorious jailhouse stitches.

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