Man convicted of killing Merced teenager sentenced to 31 years in prison

MERCED, Calif. (KFSN) -- Carlos Maldonado-Pizarro was successful a Merced courtroom connected Tuesday greeting arsenic helium listened to the heartbroken parents of 14-year-old Christian Alonso-Andrade. The young victim's parent spoke to her son's slayer with tears connected her face.

"But I bash person a question: What did my lad bash to you truthful that you would termination him,"" asked Juana Andrade done an interpreter.

Alonso-Andrade was changeable to decease backmost successful March 2021. Investigators identified Maldonado-Pizzaro arsenic a fishy successful the lawsuit and issued a warrant for his arrest.

Then, astir a twelvemonth later, Border Patrol agents arrested Maldonado-Pizarro aft helium entered the U.S. illegally. The District Attorney's Office charged the suspect with first-degree murder, wherever helium was looking astatine spending 75 years to beingness successful prison.

But helium took a plea woody for manslaughter with pack enhancements and was sentenced to 31 years.

"Merced County isn't going to tolerate the pack unit brought to our community," said Natalia Enero, a Deputy District Attorney with the Merced County District Attorney's Office.

Defense Attorney Jeffrey Tenenbaum said his lawsuit has taken work for the crime.

"Mr. Maldonado-Pizarro is looking guardant to serving his condemnation and moving connected with his life," said Tenenbaum.

Christian's parents told Action News their symptom is thing nary household should ever person to endure.

"I americium incapable to accidental however I americium feeling, a pain, precise big," said Silvino Alonso, Christian father. "It is thing I bash not privation upon anybody."

Christian volition stay everlastingly 14. He volition beryllium remembered arsenic a blessed and caring teen who loved to walk clip with his siblings. But for Christian's parents, nary magnitude of clip that Maldonado-Pizzaro spends down bars volition bring backmost the lad they lost.

"I americium precise unhappy due to the fact that 31 years is nothing," said Juana. "That volition not bring my son's beingness back. Not adjacent if helium had beingness successful prison, my lad volition not return."

The Merced County District Attorney's Office said Maldonado-Pizarro volition beryllium sent to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation sometime this week oregon adjacent to service retired his sentence.

"Nothing's ever going to bring their lad backmost to them," said Enero. "They're near with a large spread successful their heart."

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