LOS ANGELES : Clerk Pleads Not Guilty in Teen-Ager’s Fatal Shooting
A South-Central Los Angeles liquor store clerk pleaded not guilty Wednesday to murder charges stemming from the fatal shooting of a teen-ager who stole a case of beer.
Juan Tejeda, 42, was charged with one count of murder and a special allegation of personal use of a firearm in the slaying of a 17-year-old who ran from Fred’s Liquor with two 12-packs of beer on Sunday.
Tejeda was jailed in lieu of $1 million bail. A preliminary hearing was scheduled Nov. 24.
Tejeda told investigators that he fired his gun to warn Ulises Jaramillo, but shot the youth in the back instead.
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