PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) -- A 19-year-old man who shot a teenager in the parking lot of Clackamas Town Center in Dec. 2024 pleaded guilty to attempted murder on Wednesday, the Clackamas County District Attorney's Office announced.

Pedro Anthony Cornejo-Morales also pleaded guilty to unlawful use of a weapon charges as part of a plea agreement. He was sentenced to 90 months in prison.

Officials say that on Dec. 20, 2024, "Cornejo-Morales walked up to a car in the mall parking lot and fired five shots at a passenger, 15-year-old Zenon Elias Mendez. Mendez suffered a gunshot wound to his left hand and was treated at a nearby hospital."

Cornejo-Morales was arrested shortly after the shooting. A second man, 20-year-old Carlos Raul Hererra-Medrano, was also charged with attempted murder and unla

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