Crime & Safety
Two Men Charged With Murder in San Mateo Parking Lot Shooting
The two suspects were arrested after a high-speed chase into SF last week, police said.
REDWOOD CITY, CA – Two men have been charged with murder in connection with a fatal shooting in San Mateo, according to prosecutors.
Officers responded to a parking lot in the 3500 block of South El Camino Real just before 7 p.m. Sept. 6 where they found 31-year-old Daniel Carona suffering from multiple gunshot wounds.
Carona, who lived in San Mateo and Half Moon Bay, was pronounced dead at the scene.
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Alejandro DeLeon, 22, and Luis Mercado, 20, were identified as the shooters and arrested after leading California Highway Patrol officers on a high-speed chase.
San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said DeLeon and Mercado appeared in court today and were each charged with one count of murder, shooting at an unoccupied vehicle and fleeing from the police.
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Both defendants had private defenders appointed, and will appear in front of the courts Sept. 16 where they will enter a plea.
Wagstaffe said bail was set at $5 million each.
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