SANTA ROSA (BCN) -- The second of two men charged with shooting toward a crowded bus stop in March 2006, injuring two teens, pleaded no contest Thursday in Sonoma County Superior Court to attempted murder.
Luis Guerrero-Lopez, 22, also pleaded no contest to assault with a deadly weapon and being a member of a street gang, and agreed to a prison term of 23 years. He will be sentenced in January.
Guerrero-Lopez's co-defendant, Jose Hugo Galicia, 22, of Glen Ellen, also pleaded no contest in September to attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon and being a gang member. He was sentenced in October to 28 years in prison.
Both men had been charged with 11 counts of attempted murder, 12 counts of assault with a firearm, gang and weapons enhancements and a separate charge of being a street gang member. Each pleaded no contest to one count on each charge.
Santa Rosa police said Galicia and Guerrero-Lopez pulled up to a bus stop at Hopper Avenue and Airway Drive in Santa Rosa in a Cadillac Escalade at about 1:45 p.m. on March 17, 2006
One of the two men got out of the car and fired several shots, striking a 15-year-old girl and a 14-year-old boy, police said. Both victims survived. The prosecution alleged Galicia fired the weapon.
The victims attended Airway Community School, a school for middle and high school students who have been expelled or suspended from other high schools.
The shooting was believed to be in retaliation for the shooting of a 15-year-old girl by two alleged rival gang members on Stony Point Road in Santa Rosa five days earlier.
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