San Diego

Roger Sing Ip ended his criminal case in the 1989 fatal shooting of a 15-year-old boy by pleading guilty Monday to a remaining gun charge against him.

Ip, 35, of Spring Valley, asked for immediate sentencing and received the maximum one-year term in state prison.

The sentence is to run consecutively to the four-year sentence Ip received March 19 from San Diego Superior Court Judge Herbert Exarhos for his involuntary manslaughter conviction.

Ip fatally shot Kurt Yokes on July 10, 1989, following a near collision in Pacific Beach when Ip’s vehicle came close to the car in which Yokes was a passenger.

At his two trials, Ip testified that two other teen-agers in the car yelled racial and vulgar comments to him, and he followed them only to talk to them about respect.

The defendant said his gun discharged when his vehicle lurched forward, and the shooting was accidental.

Ip had been scheduled for a third trial June 3 on the final charge.

At Ip’s first trial in July, 1990, he was acquitted of first-degree murder, and the jury deadlocked, 7 to 5, for acquittal on second-degree murder.

At his second trial, jurors acquitted Ip of second-degree murder and voluntary manslaughter and found him guilty Feb. 20 of involuntary manslaughter.

The Yokes family has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against Ip and the China Inn, the Pacific Beach restaurant he co-owned at the time. That suit is set for trial in September.