{"id":73397,"date":"2016-08-29T17:56:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-30T00:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theavtimes.com\/?p=73397"},"modified":"2016-09-22T09:05:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-22T16:05:44","slug":"plea-entered-in-car-to-car-shooting-of-teen-girl-in-palmdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2016\/08\/29\/plea-entered-in-car-to-car-shooting-of-teen-girl-in-palmdale\/","title":{"rendered":"Plea entered in car-to-car shooting of teen girl in Palmdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_59007\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-59007\" style=\"width: 735px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-59007\" src=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/car-to-car-shooting.jpg\" alt=\"Several hours after the car-to-car shooting, a vehicle believed to be involved was stopped near Palmdale Boulevard and 10th Street East. Three occupants were detained, and two were eventually arrested. [Photo by LUIS MEZA]\" width=\"735\" height=\"441\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/car-to-car-shooting.jpg 735w, https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/car-to-car-shooting-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-59007\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several hours after the car-to-car shooting on Dec. 19, 2014, a vehicle believed to be involved was stopped near Palmdale Boulevard and 10th Street East. Fernando Albarran and Jaime Espinoza were arrested and charged with attempted murder. [Photo by LUIS MEZA]<\/figcaption><\/figure>PALMDALE- One of two young men charged with the attempted murder of a teenage girl in a 2014 car-to-car shooting in Palmdale entered a no contest plea Monday and was immediately sentenced to 15 years to life in prison.<\/p>\n<p><b>Fernando Albarran<\/b>, 23, entered his plea to one count each of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon, according to a court clerk.<\/p>\n<p>Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Lisa Chang ordered Albarran, who has been jailed on $6 million bail since his arrest, to return to court for a restitution hearing on Nov. 30.<\/p>\n<p>Jury selection for the trial of his co-defendant, <b>Jaime Alberto Espinoza,<\/b> is scheduled to begin Wednesday at the Lancaster courthouse.<\/p>\n<p>Espinoza, 22, is facing five counts each of attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon and one count of shooting at a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors allege the pair were in a vehicle that pulled up alongside a car near 17th Street East and Avenue R just after noon on Dec. 19, 2014, then one shot was fired.<\/p>\n<p>A girl sitting in the front passenger seat was struck in her head and hospitalized in critical condition in what police said was a gang-related shooting. Albarran and Espinoza, both of Palmdale, were arrested several hours later.<\/p>\n<p>Four other people, including a John Doe, are listed in the criminal complaint as attempted murder victims.<\/p>\n<p>Espinoza had multiple prior arrests and was sentenced to 30-day jail stints at least twice on misdemeanor charges, according to Los Angeles County jail and court records.<\/p>\n<p>Albarran had at least one previous arrest &#8212; on March 6, 2013, for which he was sentenced to 486 days in jail.<\/p>\n<p>Previous related stories:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2014\/12\/20\/2-arrested-in-car-to-car-shooting-of-teen-girl\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>2 arrested in car-to-car shooting of teen girl<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/2014\/12\/19\/female-shot-critically-injured-in-palmdale\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Female shot, critically injured in car-to-car shooting<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PALMDALE- One of two young men charged with the attempted murder of a teenage girl in a 2014 car-to-car shooting in Palmdale entered a no contest plea Monday and was immediately sentenced to 15 years to life in prison. Fernando Albarran, 23, entered his plea to one count each of attempted murder and assault with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":59007,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[719],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73397"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59007"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theavtimes.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}