OXNARD : Teen May Face Trial as Adult in Shooting
Prosecutors will seek to make a 17-year-old transient stand trial as an adult in connection with an Oxnard shooting last week, the Ventura County district attorney’s office announced Wednesday.
The teen-ager, who prosecutors declined to identify because of his age, has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon and firing into an occupied dwelling. He is scheduled to be arraigned in Juvenile Court today.
Gwendolyn Thompson, 33, was shot once in the calf as she stood in her Perkins Road apartment the night of Nov. 3. She was treated and released from an area hospital the night of the attack, and the youth was arrested shortly afterward.
Deputy Dist. Atty. Linda Groberg said the teen-ager would face a maximum sentence of more than 15 years in prison if convicted of the charges as an adult.
Groberg said she expects a judge to rule on the motion within 15 days.
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