The murder trial of a 17-year-old Poly High School student opened today with emotional testimony from her mother, who said she heard the gunshots that killed her daughter and went outside to find her bleeding in the street just steps from their Cambodia Town home.
Briana Soto had just gotten off her job at McDonald’s and was walking home when she was fatally shot near the intersection of 11th Street and Lewis Avenue at about 8:22 p.m. on March 26, prosecutors said.
As the trial began, Ricardo Choza, Soto’s boyfriend testified that he was on the phone with her that day when he heard “a scream, then a pop noise.”…