Three Years Later, Killer In Peninsula Shooting Sentenced To 60 Years Behind Bars

REDWOOD CITY, CA — A man convicted of the 2014 shooting death of an 18-year-old man in East Palo Alto was sentenced to 60 years to life in prison Friday by a San Mateo County superior court judge.

Judge Leland Davis sentenced Antonio Sotelo-Moreno, 27, after noting that the defendant appeared to show no remorse for the killing of Nazario Barajas, according to San Mateo County District Attorney Steve
Wagstaffe.

In February, a jury found Sotelo-Moreno guilty of first-degree murder and being a felon in possession of a firearm, among other charges.

Prosecutors said Sotelo-Moreno shot into a car in which Barajas was riding on Georgetown Street after the victim and several friends left a party at the Westlake Apartment complex. After he and another man, Herson Cruz, forced the victims' car to a stop using their own vehicle, Sotelo-Moreno allegedly got out of his
vehicle and asked where Barajas was before firing at least six shots into the car, according to prosecutors.

All four people who were in the backseat of the car were struck by gunfire but only Barajas was killed. Police believe Barajas had some kind of a conflict with one of Cruz's friends.

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