A 25-year-old man has been sentenced to 42 years to life in
prison for a fatal shooting in San Mateo in 2016, prosecutors said Wednesday.
San Leandro resident Alejandro Deleon received the sentence Tuesday
after being found guilty last August of second-degree murder and possession of
a firearm by a felon for the shooting of Daniel Corona in the 3500 block of
South El Camino Real on Sept. 6, 2016, prosecutors said.
According to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s
Office, Deleon and Louis Mercado, 24, of Hayward, confronted Corona. Deleon
then pulled out a semi-automatic handgun and shot him.
The pair then got into a vehicle with Mercado driving and
fled, with San Mateo police and California Highway Patrol officers pursuing the
vehicle into San Francisco where the two were eventually stopped and arrested,
prosecutors said.
During the pursuit, they threw several items out of the
vehicle including the gun, which investigators later recovered.
Following a 30-day trial, the jury that convicted Deleon of
murder found Mercado not guilty of the same charge but convicted him of felony evading.
Deleon’s defense attorney was not immediately available to
comment on the sentencing.
Source: NBC Bay Area
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