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 murder of 19-year-old Catherine Fisher on July 13, 2011, 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 Cárdenas and Fidel Silva as the two shooters and the driver in the case, later learning that the trio had fled after the shooting and headed to Grand Junction, Colorado, where Fuentes committed another fatal shooting on the 16th. July 2011.
Fuentes then returned to the Bay Area and was arrested three days later, East Palo Alto police said. However, Cárdenas and Silva remain at large.
Fuentes was convicted of Colorado's murder and sentenced to 84 years in prison, then extradited to San Mateo County to face charges for the murder of Fisher and the premeditated attempted murder of the other people in the vehicle, prosecutors said.
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