EAST PALO ALTO – A former East Palo Alto resident faces life in jail with out the potential for parole after a Peninsula jury convicted him this week of homicide and tried homicide.
Tuesday, on their second day of deliberations, jurors discovered 31-year-old Christian Fuentes responsible of the first-degree homicide of 19-year-old Catherine Fisher with the particular circumstances of mendacity in wait and use of a firearm, in addition to the tried homicide of a second particular person, in line with the San Mateo County District Lawyer’s Workplace.
Fuentes can be sentenced Jan. 12, mentioned District Lawyer Steve Wagstaffe.
Fisher and two different individuals have been sitting inside a Chevrolet Tahoe parked on the 2500 block of Annapolis Avenue in East Palo Alto round 2 a.m. on July 13, 2011, when a automotive pulled up, in line with prosecutors. Two individuals obtained out of the automotive, walked as much as the SUV and opened hearth. Fisher was hit a number of occasions and died of her accidents.
Prosecutors mentioned Fuentes and a second suspect left the scene and ultimately made their option to Colorado, the place Fuentes participated within the homicide of a rival gang member. Fuentes was convicted of that homicide and sentenced to roughly 84 years in jail.
Following his sentencing, Fuentes was extradited to San Mateo County to face trial for Fisher’s homicide.
Wagstaffe mentioned his workplace was “extraordinarily happy” by Tuesday’s verdict.
“We're extraordinarily happy that after ten years ready for justice for the homicide of Catherine Fisher, the Fisher household lastly was capable of see the assassin of their daughter held accountable for his or her daughter’s dying,” Wagstaffe mentioned in an announcement.