Local News in Brief : Driver Guilty in Shooting

A motorist was convicted in Pomona Superior Court Thursday in a freeway shooting incident in which a passenger in his car fired five rounds from a .45-caliber pistol into a truck.

Angelo Sirigos, 21, of Yucaipa, was found guilty of one count each of shooting into an occupied vehicle, assault with a deadly weapon, brandishing a weapon and carrying a loaded firearm. He is scheduled to be sentenced March 31 and could be sent to state prison for up to seven years.

Prosecutors said the shooting incident occurred last March 19, after a vehicle driven by Sirigos and a truck driven by a Pomona man entered the 210 Freeway in San Dimas.

Sirigos apparently felt that the truck blocked his vehicle and waved a the pistol at the driver, prosecutors said. He then handed the pistol to a passenger who fired five rounds into the truck, none of which struck the driver. The passenger has not been charged because of insufficient evidence, prosecutors said.

A total of five people were killed in Southern California last summer during a rash of random roadway violence. More than 50 incidents were tallied by the California Highway Patrol.