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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A teen who was charged and is serving clip for the death of Orosi pedagogue Sergio Martin has had his condemnation reduced, the Tulare County District Attorney's Office announced Thursday.
The shooting victim, Sergio Martin, was a Spanish teacher astatine El Monte Middle School successful Orosi.
The DA says successful August of 2024, the 16-year-old (who was 15 astatine the time) admitted to shooting Martin aggregate times connected Nov. 6, 2023. The teen snuck into Martin's location to perpetrate a robbery and was past confronted by Martin.
The teen past changeable Martin and fled. The DA says helium past returned a fewer hours aboriginal with 2 men, Jorge Luis Arrieta and Joseph Angel Garcia, successful an effort to retrieve the firearm and different property.
The teen was identified done surveillance video and recovered astatine his home.
Shooting unfortunate Sergio MartinThe teen was sentenced successful August of 2024 aft helium admitted to sidesplitting Martin, with peculiar allegations that the transgression was committed during a burglary and that a firearm was used. He further admitted to receiving stolen property.
According to the DA's office, the teen was sentenced successful December 2024 to 7 years oregon up to the property of 25, the maximum allowed nether California law.
On July 16, the DA said the tribunal reduced the teen's condemnation by 2 months, citing affirmative behaviour toward rehabilitation outlined successful Welfare and Institutions codification 875(b)(1). There volition beryllium different reappraisal for the teen's advancement successful December.
Tulare County's District Attorney, Tim Ward, said that determination is simply a increasing interest successful the authorities regarding lenient punishment for juvenile offenders.
"To person the tribunal trim this murderer's condemnation contempt the information helium had incidental violations portion successful custody intelligibly sends the incorrect connection not lone to the insignificant but the victim's household and the assemblage arsenic well, who expect existent consequences for convulsive transgression committed successful their neighborhoods," Ward said.
