The fatal shooting victim, 59-year-old Mario Serhan, was mistakenly believed by the killers to be an undercover police officer
The last of four defendants convicted in a violent South Bay crime spree that left one man shot dead and a woman paralyzed in a separate shooting was sentenced this week to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Pedraza's co-defendants, Cesar Alvarado, 45; Britney Canal, 35; and Francisco Aranda, 35, have all been sentenced to prison. Pedraza asked her to retrieve the backpack, but when she went to the hotel, no backpack could be found. Pedraza later arrived with Alvarado and Canal, and the trio began accusing her of stealing the backpack, she testified.
The prosecutor said the defendants began"freaking out" and concluded the SUV's driver must be a police officer. The defendants continued to take the woman to several other locations that day, before eventually accusing her of stealing from them and"snitching" to police on a prior occasion.
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