Wilmington gang member gets LWOP for two slayings
Jesus Sedillo smiled and blew kisses at his family in the Long Beach courtroom before heading into the lock-up to begin the rest of his life in prison - without the possibility of ever getting out. He was sentenced today for the murders of Manuel Lopez, 17, of Wilmington on Sept. 23, 2006, in a car-to-pedestrian shooting at Bayview Avenue and F Street and Richard Romero, 18, of Wilmington, about six weeks later.
During the last crime, Sedillo wore a wolf mask as he shot from his car into the vehicle carrying Romero, his cousin Edward Villegas and his sister, Jessica Romero, near Pacific Coast Highway and Broad Avenue.
Full story will be up later on a contentious hearing on Sedillo's new trial motion and Romero's mother's tearful courtroom statement
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This punk should have got the death penalty!! This is why are prisons are overloaded. Do you think he would blow kisses if he was getting the gas chamber? California needs to step up to the plate and start putting losers like this to death. Im am sick and tired of reading LWOP for murders!!!
Big Mo
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