A young man who gunned down a 17-year-old Cathedral City boy during a street confrontation that possibly stemmed from prior workplace ill-will was sentenced Friday to 50 years to life in state prison.

A Murrieta jury in June deliberated one day before convicting Juan Alfredo Landeros Garcia, 26, of Cathedral City of first-degree murder, shooting at an occupied vehicle and sentence-enhancing gun and great bodily injury allegations for the 2020 slaying of Isaiah Guerra.

During a hearing at the Southwest Justice Center in Murrieta Friday, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Johnnetta Anderson imposed the sentence required under state law on Garcia.

According to a trial brief filed by the District Attorney’s Office, on the evening of April 4, 2020, Garcia was walking to a relative’s house

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