PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — A Fresno, California, man has been sentenced to 12 ½ years in federal prison after firing more than 20 rounds into a crowd at the Umatilla Indian Reservation in northeastern Oregon.
Prosecutors said Thursday that 23-year-old Victor Contreras opened fire in March 2016 after another man, Julian Simpson, fatally shot someone in the head. Contreras and Simpson had been asked to leave a party amid escalating disputes between gang members.
One of the shots fired by Contreras struck a man just above the ankle.
Contreras pleaded guilty at a prior hearing to assault and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a crime of violence.
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His co-defendant pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and is serving a 25-year sentence.