Two men convicted in the shooting death of a cannabis delivery driver in the Oak Park neighborhood were sentenced Monday to 25 years to life in state prison.<\/p>\n
Brayan Morales, 21, and Keven Chinchilla, 18, were found guilty by a San Diego Superior Court jury of first-degree murder and attempted robbery for their roles in the March 28, 2024, killing of 25-year-old Poway resident Andres Dominguez.<\/p>\n
Police found Dominguez shot just before 11 p.m. in a car that crashed into a tree and a fence at Michael and 60th streets. The victim was taken to a hospital, where he died shortly after arrival.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors allege Dominguez was shot at Redwood and 60th streets, a few blocks away from where he ultimately crashed his car.<\/p>\n
Text messages the defendants sent to one another a few hours before the shooting showed they planned to place an order with a delivery service, then rob its driver, according to prosecutors\u2019 sentencing documents.<\/p>\n
Morales was 18 years old, and Chinchilla was 16 at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n
Another defendant arrested in the case, Alex Espinoza, pleaded guilty to attempted robbery and was sentenced to prison. Prosecutors said he acted as a getaway driver who spirited Morales and Chinchilla away from the shooting scene.<\/p>\n
A fourth defendant was also arrested, but charges against her were dismissed at a preliminary hearing held last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two men convicted in the shooting death of a cannabis delivery driver in the Oak Park neighborhood were…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443198,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,1312,138,181,23,100,74,84,76,75],"class_list":["post-443197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-courts","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443197","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=443197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443197\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}