San Jose: Gang members found guilty in stomping death of eighth-grader
SAN JOSE -- A Santa Clara County jury Tuesday convicted three gang members in connection with the 2012 killing of a 14-year-old boy who was stomped to death on a Roosevelt Park basketball court by a mob that accused him of affiliating with a rival gang.
The victim, Heriberto Reyes was an eighth-grader at Bernal Intermediate School in South San Jose and did not belong to a gang. His older brother, Juan Reyes, was also badly beaten but survived.
After a 10-week trial and about four days of deliberation, the jury convicted Jacob Lynch, now 20, and Clemente Salas, 19, of first-degree murder with the special circumstance of murder for the benefit of a street gang. They each face life in prison without the possibility of parole.
A third young man, Scott Conway, 22, was found guilty of beating up Juan Reyes, and also of two previous separate assaults on young boys who were not in a gang. He faces 40 years in prison.
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Vile heinous crime, if one deserves the death penalty, something like this deserves it.
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Not sure if some of the stories I post, deserve it. This does show the ugly side of gangs though and these people really need to be seriously dealt with.
