a 23-year-old man from Yakima has been sentenced to 15-years in prison on a charge of 2nd degree murder following a shooting last year that killed 17-year-old Landynn Lewis of Yakima Police say Angel Ayala, a local gang member, shot the victim in the Safeway/Rite Aid parking lot in the 2200 block of West Nob Hill Blvd.

WHAT IS AN ALFORD PLEA?

Anyala of Terrace Heights agreed to an Alford plea that helped him avoid a full trial on the charges. The plea allows him to maintain his innocence while admitting that he could have been found guilty by a jury. Officers were called to the parking lot after getting calls of shots fired. They arrive and find a juvenile male, identified as Landynn Lewis who was shot in the head sitting in the drivers seat of a jeep that had crashed into a tree in the

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