EL CAJON : Accomplice in Robbery Sentenced
An Orange County man was sentenced to 11 years in state prison Tuesday after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter in a robbery at an El Cajon liquor store that left the owner dead.
Tin Trung Ngo, 19, of Westminster was not in the Deliquery store when Thamir (Tom) Mikhael was gunned down Aug. 18, 1991, but had been charged with first-degree murder.
The man who fired the gun, 20-year-old Hai Van Nguyen, is serving a life-without-parole prison sentence after pleading guilty to avoid the death penalty. Nguyen, of Garden Grove, pleaded guilty two days after Robert Alton Harris was executed.
Nguyen also admitted shooting store employee David Warton, who was severely wounded.
Prosecutors believe Ngo drove away from the liquor store when shots rang out. Nguyen was left at the scene and was arrested soon after the shooting.
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