{"id":227626,"date":"2026-03-19T23:36:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227626\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T23:36:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T23:36:08","slug":"man-convicted-of-murder-in-sacramento-ca-car-to-car-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/227626\/","title":{"rendered":"Man convicted of murder in Sacramento CA car-to-car shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/1773963367_778_SAC courts justice ruling conviction purple still chyron frame.jpeg\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" title=\"\" alt=\"in the courts\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A Sacramento County jury on Wednesday found a man <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article268606797.html\">guilty of first-degree murder for a 2022 car-to-car shooting<\/a> in broad daylight that was captured on nearby security cameras.<\/p>\n<p>The jury convicted Peter Van Phan, 30, for the October 2022 shooting death of 20-year-old <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article267999607.html\">Andy Van who was killed in a south Sacramento<\/a> intersection.<\/p>\n<p>Phan\u2019s murder conviction included a special circumstance enhancement for shooting Van intentionally and committing the murder by firing a gun from a vehicle, the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacda.org\/2026\/03\/defendant-convicted-of-shooting-murder-at-south-sacramento-intersection\/\">Sacramento County District Attorney\u2019s Office<\/a> announced Thursday in a news release. The conviction also included an enhancement for using gun to commit the murder.<\/p>\n<p>At 12:54 p.m. on Oct. 27, 2022, the Sacramento County Sheriff\u2019s Office received a ShotSpotter alert indicating at least two gunshots had been fired in the 6400 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, just south of 47th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>A few minutes later, the Sheriff\u2019s Office received a call from a passerby reporting there was someone in the area inside a crashed car who had been shot.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies arrived at the scene and found a man, later identified as Van, suffering from at least one gunshot wound. He was sitting inside his car which had crashed into a fence, sheriff\u2019s officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies began performing life-saving measures on the victim until medics arrived. He was taken by ambulance to a hospital, where he died from his injuries several hours later.<\/p>\n<p>Van of Sacramento was driving an Acura that day. Prosecutors said video from nearby security cameras showed Van\u2019s Acura being chased by a Mercedes.<\/p>\n<p>Just before Van\u2019s Acura crashed into a fence near 48th Avenue, an object that appeared to be a gun was extended out of the Mercedes\u2019 driver\u2019s window, according to the District Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said the Mercedes\u2019 license plate was captured on the video, and Phan was the registered owner of the Mercedes. Investigators determined Phan was in the same area at the time of the deadly shooting, prosecutors said, and Van had previously been involved in a dispute with one of Phan\u2019s associates.<\/p>\n<p>Sheriff\u2019s homicide detectives arrested Phan nearly two weeks later. On Thursday, Phan remained in custody at the Rio Cosumnes Correctional Center near Elk Grove.<\/p>\n<p>Phan is scheduled to be sentenced June 12 in Sacramento Superior Court. Prosecutors said Phan faces a maximum sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/239969303\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/SAC_LS_2022_Rosalio_Ahumada.JPG\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Rosalio Ahumada\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sacbee.com\/profile\/239969303\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Rosalio Ahumada<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    The Sacramento Bee<\/p>\n<p>            Rosalio Ahumada writes breaking news stories related to crime and public safety for The Sacramento Bee. He speaks Spanish fluently and has worked as a news reporter in the Central Valley since 2004.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Sacramento County jury on Wednesday found a man guilty of first-degree murder for a 2022 car-to-car shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182742,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[103535,103534,44344,121,123,103533,122,2729],"class_list":["post-227626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-andy-van","tag-car-shooting","tag-martin-luther-king-jr-boulevard","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-murder-conviction","tag-sacramento-news","tag-sacramento-sheriff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227626","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=227626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182742"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}