A man convicted of gunning down an acquaintance in front of a City Heights home was sentenced Friday to 35 years to life in state prison.

Michael Hall, 23, was found guilty by a San Diego jury of first-degree murder for the 2023 shooting death of Cedrick Deshawn Cruz, 35.

Prosecutors say Cruz was shot more than a dozen times in front of his mother’s home. Paramedics took him to a hospital, where doctors pronounced him dead.

Some of Cruz’s relatives who attended the sentencing hearing said Hall was friends with a member of the victim’s family and had recently been taken in by the Cruz family during a troubled time in his life.

Trial testimony indicated the shooting may have stemmed from a dispute over a gun Hall owned that went missing while he was staying with at the Cruz residence.

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