The night of Oct. 12, 2019, Ricardo Banderas was standing on a Ventura street corner with his older brother. Seconds later, gunshots rang out, and his brother was on the ground bleeding.
Banderas was one of the prosecution’s first witnesses in the trial of the alleged shooter: Kristian Fonseca. On Feb. 25, the day the trial started, the witness told a Ventura County jury that the attack left his brother with life-altering injuries and that he still doesn’t understand why they would be targeted.
Fonseca, 27, of Fillmore, is accused of injuring Banderas’ brother in the Ventura shooting and then, a year later, killing two men and injuring another in a Santa Paula shooting, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office…