A Long Beach man convicted of killing a 17-year-old girl as she walked home from work and attempting to kill four others in a separate shooting was sentenced to 358 years to life in state prison on Thursday, July 31 — with the judge saying it was frustrating he never said why he shot her.

Troy Lamar Fox, 34, during his sentencing in Long Beach Superior Court, looked at each of six speakers as they addressed the court about the loss of Briana Soto, who was gunned down by Fox steps from her home near 11th Street and Lewis Avenue on March 26, 2024.

While the Soto shooting itself wasn’t captured on video, surveillance video from a nearby home did capture the sound of four gunshots and her two screams — the second stopping at the final gunshot.

Soto, on the phone with her boyfriend when Fox

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