Man captured in Mexico gets 15 years in prison for a 2015 fatal shooting in Long Beach
Ruben Barrera Jr., 18, was fatally shot in the 5400 block of Elm Avenue on June 5, 2015. Albert Jesse Rodriguez, now 28, has been sentenced to 15 years in state prison for voluntary manslaughter in the 2015 killing of Ruben Barrera Jr. Rodriguez was arrested in Mexico in March 2021 after a $2 million warrant was issued for his arrest. He pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter and admitted to an allegation that he personally used a gun in the shooting death. Barrera died from a gunshot wound to the chest. Rodriguez had been identified in 2015 as a suspect in the killing and was taken to the U.S. border in 2021.
Published : 4 weeks ago by City News Service in General
LONG BEACH — A man who was arrested in Mexico in connection with the 2015 killing of a young man in Long Beach has been sentenced to 15 years in state prison.
Albert Jesse Rodriguez, now 28, pleaded no contest Tuesday to voluntary manslaughter and admitted an allegation that he personally used a gun in the June 5, 2015, shooting death of Ruben Barrera Jr. in the 5400 block of Elm Avenue, according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
Barrera, 18, died from a gunshot wound to the chest.
Rodriguez had been identified in 2015 as a suspect in the killing, and a $2 million warrant had been issued for his arrest, Long Beach police said shortly after he was taken into custody in Baja California, Mexico, in March 2021.
Homicide detectives received information that Rodriguez was in Mexico near the U.S. border and partnered with the U.S. Marshals Service Pacific Southwest Regional Fugitive Task Force and Mexican authorities to coordinate efforts to apprehend him in 2021, police said.
He was taken to the U.S. border, with U.S. Marshals Service personnel subsequently taking him to Long Beach to be booked in connection with Barrera’s killing, according to police.
Rodriguez was initially charged with murder. That count was dismissed as a result of his plea, according to the District Attorney’s Office.
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