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A former Riverside resident who shot and wounded two Jewish men as they left church services in the Pico-Robertson area of Los Angeles has pleaded guilty to hate crimes and firearms offenses, the county said. California Department of Justice.
Jaime Tran, 29, agreed to plead guilty to all charges against him: two counts of hate crimes with intent to kill and two counts of using, carrying and discharging a firearm during and in relation to a crime of violence.
Tran is expected to plead guilty to the felony charges before U.S. District Judge George H. Wu in the coming weeks.
By pleading guilty, Tran faces a statutory minimum sentence of life in federal prison for each hate crime count, and a mandatory minimum sentence of life in federal prison and a mandatory minimum sentence of 10 years for each firearm count.
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