Jury selection begins in trial for Fontana taggers accused in shooting

Jury selection began this afternoon in a trial for two alleged Fontana gang members accused of shooting someone who confronted them while they were tagging.

Angel Valencia, 20, and Andrew Valdivia, 19, each face two counts attempted murder in Fontana Superior Court for the Sept. 2, 2008 shooting.

Valencia and Valdivia are accused of shooting at a 41-year-old man and his teenage son after the father and son confronted the alleged gang members with baseball bats as they tagged a wall in Fontana's Southridge neighborhood.

Valencia and Valdivia fled when confronted, and enlisted a driver to take them to the father and son's home, according to prosecutors. Once there, Valencia and Valdivia opened fire, hitting the father twice, according to prosecutors.

The driver was initially charged with two counts of attempted murder for his role in the incident, but he accepted a plea bargain from prosecutors for a one-year jail sentence in exchange for testimony against Valencia and Valdivia.