Man Pleads Innocent in Shooting of 3 People
The alleged triggerman in a shooting that left a young girl paralyzed and injured two other youths pleaded innocent Thursday to charges of attempted murder.
Roscoe Frederick, 20, entered his pleas in Municipal Court in Compton. He is charged with three counts of attempted murder with special allegations that he used a handgun and caused great bodily injury.
Frederick was the alleged gunman in the April 29 shooting that left an innocent bystander, Cindy Rodriguez, 12, paralyzed from the waist down, prosecutors said. The shooting erupted after a shoving match between rival gang members in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant at Imperial Highway and Avalon Boulevard, Deputy Dist. Atty. David Demerjian said. Rodriguez was going to a mailbox at her apartment across the street when she was hit by a stray bullet that severed her spinal cord. Two boys, ages 17 and 14, were also hit by the gunfire but suffered less serious wounds.
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