OXNARD : Youth Arraigned in Companion’s Slaying
A 16-year-old Oxnard youth whose teen-age companion was slain by the owner of an Oxnard convenience store that the two teen-agers were allegedly trying to rob was arraigned Monday in Ventura County Juvenile Court on charges of murder, attempted murder and attempted robbery.
The youth, unidentified because of his age, is scheduled to undergo a hearing Jan. 5 to determine whether he should be tried as an adult.
He also was charged, in the arraignment before Superior Court Judge Robert C. Bradley, with a special circumstance of murder during commission of an attempted robbery, which would qualify him for a possible maximum sentence of life without parole if tried and convicted as an adult.
Police said the youth and Mark Alan Estrada, 16, of Oxnard tried to rob a Shop ‘N Save Store on South Ventura Road, where store owner T. Roman Paras then shot Estrada to death during an exchange of gunfire last Wednesday.
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