{"id":169821,"date":"2026-02-09T01:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-09T01:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/169821\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T01:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T01:16:08","slug":"man-gets-15-years-in-prison-for-a-fatal-shooting-in-santa-ana-in-2022-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/169821\/","title":{"rendered":"Man gets 15 years in prison for a fatal shooting in Santa Ana in 2022 \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA ANA \u2014 A 22-year-old man pleaded guilty Friday and was immediately sentenced to 15 years in prison for a fatal shooting of a 21-year-old man in Santa Ana.<\/p>\n<p>Alex Hernandez, who has been in custody since July 15, 2022, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a gun. As part of his plea deal, a murder charge with a sentencing enhancement for discharge of a gun causing death was dismissed.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez pleaded guilty to killing Luis Garcia of Santa Ana.<\/p>\n<p>Police received a call at 1:13 p.m., July 11, 2022, reporting a man bleeding on the east side of the street at Grand Avenue and McFadden Avenue. Officers found him down in a driveway suffering from an apparent gunshot wound to his upper body.<\/p>\n<p>Orange County Fire Authority paramedics arrived on the scene and took the victim to the hospital in critical condition. He died two days later, police said.<\/p>\n<p>A 2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/santaanapd\/photos\/on-monday-july-11-2022-at-113-pm-santa-ana-police-communications-received-a-call\/408982577941156\/?_rdr\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">police statement<\/a> said the shooting appeared to be gang-related.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA ANA \u2014 A 22-year-old man pleaded guilty Friday and was immediately sentenced to 15 years in prison&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":715,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,138,27456,134,100,611,338,135,136],"class_list":["post-169821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-gang-related-crime","tag-homicide","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-santa-ana","tag-shooting","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169821\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}