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A candlelight memorial and a healing Mass ceremony are among the events planned for National Crime Victims' Rights Week in San Bernardino County starting April 26.

The San Bernardino County District Attorney's Office will host a candlelight memorial at the Rancho Cucamonga Civic Center, 10500 Civic Center Drive, at 6 p.m. April 30. District Attorney Michael A. Ramos is scheduled to speak at the event, District Attorney officials said.

A healing Mass will be 3 p.m. April 26 at Sacred Heart Church, 12704 Foothill Blvd., Rancho Cucamonga.

Remembrance boards will be on display in the lobbies of the District Attorney's offices in Victorville, Barstow and Fontana during the week.

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A jury on Monday convicted a San Bernardino man in a 2006 deadly shooting that stemmed from a dispute at El Patio Night Club in Rialto.

Andres Landeros Garcia, 23, was found guilty of murdering 24-year-old Rosa Trigo and the attempted murder of a man who was driving with her April 17, 2006, San Bernardino police said.

He was also found guilty of assault with a firearm on another passenger in the vehicle.

Trigo was wounded in the 1800 block of West 5th Street when several men inside a Hummer H2 pulled alongside the vehicle she was riding in and opened fire. She died minutes later.

Trigo and the man driving her were at the El Patio Night Club in the 300 block of East Foothill Boulevard in Rialto when a dispute arose between them and several men. Trigo and her companion left the club and were followed by several men in the Hummer.

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Jurors on Wednesday found a Victorville man guilty of the second-degree murder of a Hesperia woman, whose decomposed body was found in a Redlands field.

Regis Anthony Cooper is scheduled to return to court March 13 where he could face a prison sentence of 15-years-to-life, Redlands officials said.

The victim, 53-year-old Linda Odom was found dead Aug. 30, 2006 by workers clearing brush out of a field at the corner of Ford Street and Sunset Avenue.

Police had to scour missing persons databases and conduct a DNA comparison in order to identify her, due to her badly decomposed remains.

Cooper and his girlfriend had been living with Odom about a month when she was reported missing in April 2006.

The night before Odom's disappearance, Cooper and his girlfriend fought in the apartment on April 30. Police arrested Cooper's 20-year-old girlfriend. When she returned to the apartment on May 2, Odom was gone and Cooper said she left.

Family members confronted Cooper at the apartment complex, but he told them Odom had a stroke and was living with her mother. He later said she was in a hospital.

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