19-year-old sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for drive-by killing in Murray

  • Raoul Bedoang, 19, was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for a Murray drive-by murder.
  • Bedoang pleaded guilty to murder and firearm discharge, dismissing 16 other charges.
  • He’ll serve in juvenile care until 25, then transfer to an adult correctional facility.

SALT LAKE CITY — A teenager was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for injuring four people and killing another in a drive-by shooting.

Raoul Bedoang, 19, admitted to acting with “depraved indifference to human life” and shooting in the direction of another person, killing one person and paralyzing another, according to a plea statement filed in September.

Bedoang, a documented gang member, pleaded guilty to murder and felony discharge of a firearm resulting in serious bodily injury, both first-degree felonies. His plea deal dismissed 16 additional counts of felony discharge of a firearm — three first-degree felonies, one second-degree felony and 12 third-degree felonies — and retaliation against a witness or victim, a third-degree felony…

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