Teenager Pleads to Attempted Murder

Teenager Pleads to
Attempted Murder

November 3, 2009
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts: Joe Scott, Director of Communications
Sandi Gibbons, Public Information Officer
Jane Robison, News Secretary
Shiara Dávila-Morales, Assistant PIO
(213) 974-3525

LOS ANGELES – A teenage gang member who at age 14 seriously injured a 9-year-old girl when he shot at two men pleaded today, the District Attorney’s Office announced.

Deputy District Attorney Donna Hollingsworth of the Hardcore Gang Division said Nicholas Mack pleaded no contest to two counts of attempted murder. Mack additionally admitted gun use allegations.

The defendant, now 16, is due back for sentencing on Dec. 11 in Department 121 of the Foltz Criminal Justice Center. Mack entered the plea before Los Angeles Superior Court Judge Charlaine Olmedo. He is expected to be sentenced to a prison term of 34 years and eight months.

Co-defendant Raymundo Munoz Villareal, 26, pleaded no contest to one count of attempted murder on August 12, 2009. He was sentenced to five years in state prison. The defendant entered his plea following a trial that ended with a deadlocked jury.

The shooting took place on Sept. 11, 2007, when Villareal drove Mack to an alley near the 1400 block of Cochran Avenue. Mack exited the car, walked through alley and opened fire on two male Hispanics standing in the doorway of a residence that was adjacent to the alley, authorities said.

The bullet went through a wall and struck a 9-year-old girl who was in her bedroom doing homework. Mack and Villareal were arrested three days later by officers of the Los Angeles Police Department.

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