A 24-year-old Indiana man pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter and robbery for the 2019 murder of Mohammad Othman, a 17-year-old Carlmont High School student from Redwood City, San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.
Ruben Gonzales-Magallanes will receive a 16-year state prison sentence for the crime, Wagstaffe said, to be served consecutively with a sentence for a separate crime in Indiana.
Three others are also accused of participating in the San Mateo County crime, which allegedly occurred after plans to rob Othman and others at Central Elementary School in Belmont Jan. 7, 2019, after the four set up a ruse meeting to sell marijuana.
Antonio Marcos Valencia, 22, of Concord, is accused of being an accomplice in the robbery plan and has a pretrial conference set for Sept. 9.
The reasons shots were fired during the robbery remain undetermined. Nobody else was shot.
Gonzalez-Magallanes and another individual, Jorge Gonzales Mandujano, 17, of Mountain View, allegedly each fired one shot that hit Othman.
Jose Mijares Munoz, 19, from South San Francisco, was also arrested for the crime.
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