(KRON) — The suspect in the homicide of a Pleasant Hill bartender in 2023 was found guilty of first-degree murder Wednesday, according to the Pleasant Hill Police Department
Andre Barocio Jr. will be sentenced in June, officials confirmed in a social media post Thursday.
Police said officers responded around 1:12 a.m. on April 3, 2023, to reports of a shooting in front of Farrington’s Bar in Pleasant Hill. At the scene, they discovered the victim — a bartender at Farrington’s Bar — identified as 37-year-old Oscar Laredo-Arellano, deceased in the parking lot from a gunshot wound. Investigators determined he had been shot after an argument.
In May 2023, Pleasant Hill detectives collaborated with federal law enforcement and Mexican state police to locate Barocio Jr. in Mexico…