Jack Alan Goga

Jack, (born on January 1944 in Detroit, Michigan, USA, died on 26 March 1996 in Los Angeles, California, USA) began his professional career as an accomplished arranger for Motown Records in Detroit and after moving to Los Angeles in 1969, continued working for Motown and Jobete, BMI., Motown's publishing arm, while expanding his career into films.

Goga, 52, was found dead in his cell at County-USC Medical Center’s jail ward, Los Angeles, while awaiting a murder trial.

Goga was accused of shooting Charles “Chick” Evans, 60, to death after Evans tried to expel Goga, a house guest, from his home on Del Valle Avenue. Months earlier, prosecutors contended, Goga killed Digna Adames, a 25-year-old aspiring singer from Chicago who hitched a ride to Los Angeles with Goga. After killing Adames, police said, Goga moved in with Evans. Six months later, he fled in Evans’ vintage Volvo. Goga was caught in his Michigan hometown, where he was trying to see his sister.

Friends and family said Goga--who wrote for the Four Tops and Marvin Gaye--had become emotionally unstable after a 1992 divorce.

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