Two youths pleaded guilty Thursday to murder and attempted murder in connection with two late-night shootings in Chula Vista in 2024 in a case that began in San Diego Superior Court but in an unprecedented turn was sent to federal courts, where potential punishments are more severe.
Andrew Nunez and Johncarlo Quintero both admitted in plea agreements and at a court hearing Thursday that they tried to kill an unidentified man in the evening and early morning hours of March 26 and March 27, 2024, wounding him and another man in the process.
The shooting spree began in the parking lot of a Chili’s restaurant in a strip mall at East H Street and Paseo del Rey. As the victim left with his family Nunez, Quintero and an adult, Ricardo Sanchez, pulled up behind them…