Trial begins for two men in fatal car-to-car shooting in Fontana
A jury trial is underway for two men suspected in the car-to-car deadly shooting of a 19-year-old Fontana woman and wounding of another man on Citrus Avenue in August 2006.
Lawyers in the trial for Salvador Gonzales and Sergio Moreno, both 22, began pretrial motions on Thursday before Judge Dwight W. Moore in Fontana Superior Court, according to court records. They are scheduled to return to court Monday.
The next step would be jury selection. A date for lawyer's opening statements and witness testimony has not yet been announed.
Both men are charged in the deadly shooting of Heather Marie Montoya and the wounding of then 18-year-old Paul Martinez as the pair traveled in an Acura Integra south on Citrus Avenue, in Fontana.
The defendants and a woman, Jacque Louisa Long, who has taken a plea bargain in the case, are suspected of pulling up alongside the Integra in an allegedly stolen Chevrolet Malibu and fired shots about 5:57 a.m. into the vehicle with Montoya and Martinez.
Fontana Police said, at the time of the shooting, that the suspects appeared to target Martinez and were aquainted with the boyfriend of the female victim. No motive was released.
Montoya was pronounced dead at Kaiser Permanente Medical Center in Fontana.
Long, 27, pleaded guilty to one count of manslaughter under the terms of a plea bargain during court proceedings in January 2007.
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