A driver mistaken for an undercover officer was fatally shot and a 19-year-old woman was later shot and left for dead during the April 2018 spree
The last of four defendants convicted in a violent South Bay crime spree that left a man dead and a woman paralyzed in separate shootings was sentenced this week to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Less than a day later, the defendants took a 19-year-old woman they believed had been “snitching” to police to Sunset Cliffs, where prosecutors say Michael Pedraza, 34, shot her and left her for dead. Tourists found her hours later. She had been shot in the ear, the neck and the leg and remains partially paralyzed.
Authorities said the crime spree began with Alvarado and Canal robbing the woman who was later shot at Sunset Cliffs. They took her purse and some drugs, the woman testified at Pedraza’s first trial. The defendants took her into an SUV, where Canal repeatedly shocked her with a stun gun, the woman said. The trio demanded she get them money to make up for the missing backpack. Over the course of the next day, they drove her throughout South County as they tried differing methods to extract money from her.
The defendants tailed Serhan throughout Chula Vista then pulled alongside him on Industrial Boulevard where Alvarado shot Serhan in the head, according to the prosecutor. Following the shooting, Pedraza and his co-defendants kidnapped a man from a San Ysidro motel, beat him, accused him of stealing Pedraza’s wallet and threatened to take him to Tijuana and kill him, the prosecutor said.
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