Man Sentenced to Life Without Parole for Role in Fatal California Crime Spree
Published on August 2, 2024
SAN DIEGO—The last of four defendants convicted in a violent South Bay crime spree that left one man shot dead and a woman paralyzed in a separate shooting was sentenced this week to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Over the course of a few days in April of 2018, prosecutors say that along with both shootings, the defendants took part in a stabbing, and the abduction and assault of another victim, among other crimes. The fatal shooting victim, 59-year-old Mario Serhan, was mistakenly believed to be an undercover police officer surveilling the defendants and was shot in the head at a Chula Vista intersection....