INDIO, Calif. (KESQ) – Three young men accused of opening fire on a crowded Thermal home, unleashing numerous rounds in a drive-by attack that continued after sheriff’s deputies arrived, must stand trial on multiple counts of firearm assault and other charges, a judge ruled today.
Eric Orozco Diaz, 19, Guillermo Alexander Martinez, 18, and Gustavo Isbojet Barrera Pena, 19 — all from the eastern Coachella Valley — were arrested in December following a Riverside County Sheriff’s Department investigation.
At the end of a preliminary hearing Thursday, Superior Court Judge John Ryan found there was sufficient evidence to bound the men over for trial on 16 counts of gun assault, three counts of reckless discharge of a firearm and one count of shooting at an inhabited dwelling, with sentence-enhancing allegations of using a deadly weapon in the commission of a felony…