LONG BEACH : Man Gets 32 Months for Role in Fatal Carjacking
A man who pleaded no contest to charges in connection with the carjack slayings of two college students was sentenced Friday to 32 months in prison.
Alberto Reygoza, 20, of Long Beach entered his plea July 8 to receiving stolen property and being an accessory after the fact in a robbery. He was sentenced after a plea agreement reached with prosecutors.
Reygoza was charged in connection with the March 25 shooting deaths of Takuma Ito, a Japanese citizen, and Go Matsuura, a U.S. citizen born in Japan.
The accused gunman, Raymond Butler, is facing trial on murder charges.
Ito and Matsuura, both 19, were shot in the back of the head about 11 p.m. in a supermarket parking lot at Western Avenue and Capitol Drive.
The suspects fled in Ito’s 1994 Honda Civic, which was found the next day in San Pedro.
Both victims were attending Marymount College in Rancho Palos Verdes but were hoping to transfer to film schools at USC or UCLA.
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