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Southern California gang member sentenced for murders
Posted: Nov 22, 2012 9:58 AM by Associated Press
LOS ANGELES (AP) - A South Los Angeles gang member has been sentenced to 40 years in prison for murdering a single mother and a teenage honors student.
City News Service reports 23-year-old Marquis Edwards, who went by the nickname "Baby Uzi," was sentenced Wednesday after pleading guilty to first degree murder and racketeering in April.
Edwards admits, as a member of the Pueblo Bishop Bloods, he shot 15-year-old Jose Maldonado, leaving him to bleed to death on his driveway in 2006.
He also admitted participating in a 2007 attack, in which he and other gang members surrounded a van driven by Laura Sanchez and shot her repeatedly.
Edwards' attorney unsuccessfully asked for a sentence of 20 years, saying Edwards joined the gang as a teen in search of a father figure.
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