NEWBURY PARK : Teen-Ager Sentenced in Drive-By Attack
The teen-age driver of a car involved in a drive-by shooting in Newbury Park last year was sentenced Thursday to up to seven years in the California Youth Authority.
The 17-year-old Newbury Park resident, whose name is being withheld because of his age, was convicted in Juvenile Court of discharging a firearm into an occupied dwelling, conspiracy and assault with a firearm.
He did not wield a firearm during the Oct. 18 incident but is as legally responsible as those who did the shooting because he drove the vehicle, Deputy Dist. Atty. Kim G. Gibbons said.
He will be eligible for parole in 18 months, the prosecutor said.
The driver’s two co-defendants, who are also juveniles, are being prosecuted as adults and are scheduled for trial this month, Gibbons said. They are accused of firing at least 30 bullets into a home on Fallbrook Avenue, hitting a pregnant woman in the thigh.
Investigators have said the three youths were associated with a gang and had fired into the 34-year-old woman’s house in the mistaken belief that it was the home of a rival gang member.
The shooting was an attempt to retaliate for an earlier drive-by attack, Gibbons said.
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