By Bay City News.
A 31-year-old man convicted of first-degree murder in a fatal shooting in East Palo Alto in 2011 has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole, the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office said Friday.
Christian Fuentes, one of the suspects in the July 13, 2011, murder of 19-year-old Catherine Fisher, was convicted by a jury in September and sentenced Thursday to life in prison, prosecutors said.
Fisher was sitting in a parked vehicle with two other people on Annapolis Street when two suspects approached and opened fire. She was struck by bullets multiple times in the shooting, which investigators say targeted one of the other people in the vehicle.
Authorities identified Fuentes, Jaime Cardenas and Fidel Silva as the two shooters and the driver in the case, later learning that the trio fled after the shooting and headed to Grand Junction, Colorado, where Fuentes committed another fatal shooting on July 16, 2011.
Fuentes later returned to the Bay Area and was arrested three days later, East Palo Alto police said. However, Cardenas and Silva remain at large.
Fuentes was convicted of the Colorado murder and sentenced to 84 years in prison, then extradited to San Mateo County to face charges of Fisher's murder and the attempted premeditated murder of the other people in the vehicle, prosecutors said.
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