A skateboard-riding killer has been convicted a second time in the shooting death of another board rider in Lodi.
Alejandro Duran Mercado was convicted of second-degree murder during a retrial in the 2021 death of Cenobio “Nick” Gallegos, the San Joaquin County district attorney’s office said.
Gallegos was an “innocent young man whose life was taken without cause,” San Joaquin County District Attorney Ron Freitas said in a statement. “While no verdict can undo that loss, we hope this outcome brings a measure of justice and peace to his family.”…