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CALIFORNIA BRIEFING / LOS ANGELES

By Corina Knoll
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A 26-year-old Mara Salvatrucha gang member was found guilty of two counts of murder and 10 counts of attempted murder in a shooting rampage in the San Fernando Valley, officials said Friday.

Two years ago, Marlon Osorio approached people he thought were rival gang members, asked where they were from, then opened fire, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Paul Nunez.

A Los Angeles jury found Osorio guilty of the first-degree murder of Nelson Ramirez, who was shot five times while he sat in his car in Van Nuys, and Jessie Garcia, who was shot in Canoga Park. Both men were killed Aug. 7, 2006, the same day Osorio attempted to kill four others.

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A week later, Osorio fired on seven others in North Hills, including one woman who suffered a collapsed lung after being shot, Nunez said. Osorio was found not guilty on one count of attempted murder.

-- Corina Knoll

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Corina Knoll

Corina Knoll is a former reporter for the Metro section of the Los Angeles Times. She was on the team that investigated corruption in Bell — which led to the paper’s 2011 Pulitzer Prize for public service — and went on to cover the trials of the city’s former officials. She later contributed to the paper’s coverage of the San Bernardino terror attack that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. As a regional reporter, she wrote features about the San Gabriel Valley and the Westside. During her courts beat, she covered high-profile criminal cases and civil disputes, including the Jackson family vs AEG and Bryan Stow vs LA Dodgers. She and two colleagues investigated sheriff’s deputies whose histories of misconduct landed them on the department’s top-secret Brady list. She left The Times in January 2019. Raised in the Midwest, she is a graduate of Macalester College.

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