{"id":99732,"date":"2025-12-18T14:59:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/99732\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T14:59:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T14:59:07","slug":"man-who-was-kicked-out-of-a-fullerton-bar-and-opened-fire-injuring-an-uber-driver-sentenced-to-17-years-to-life-whittier-daily-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/99732\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who was kicked out of a Fullerton bar and opened fire, injuring an Uber driver, sentenced to 17 years to life \u2013 Whittier Daily News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SANTA ANA \u2014 A 34-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to 17 years to life in prison for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2021\/07\/09\/la-mirada-man-arrested-in-shooting-outside-fullerton-bar\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">opening fire on a crowd of people<\/a>, wounding an Uber driver, after he was kicked out of a Fullerton bar four years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Hernandez of La Mirada intended to shoot a bouncer who kicked him out of the JP23 Urban Kitchen and Bar, 101 S. Harbor Blvd., about 1 a.m. July 6, 2021, but ended up wounding a 24-year-old Uber driver, prosecutors said. Hernandez had just been kicked out of the bar.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez was convicted Oct. 16 of attempted murder, assault with a semiautomatic firearm, discharge of a gun at an occupied building, and shooting from a car, all felonies. Jurors also found true sentencing enhancements for attempted premeditated murder, discharge of a gun causing great bodily injury, inflicting great bodily injury and personal use of a gun.<\/p>\n<p>Jurors deadlocked 7 to 5 for acquittal on a separate charge of attempted murder of the Uber driver. That charge was dismissed Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Hernandez was credited with 237 days behind bars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SANTA ANA \u2014 A 34-year-old man was sentenced Wednesday to 17 years to life in prison for opening&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,138,2628,36018,137,100,611,135],"class_list":["post-99732","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-fullerton","tag-la-mirada","tag-los-angeles-county","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99732","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=99732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}