A 20-year-old man who admitted to recklessly causing the death of a teenager in a fatal shooting in South Hill in a set-up robbery during a marijuana transaction was sentenced Friday to nearly 13 years in state custody.
Antonio Adan Yescas pleaded guilty in November to first-degree manslaughter with a firearm-sentencing enhancement and first-degree attempted robbery for the Jan. 28, 2023 killing of 19-year-old Wesley Jose Molinero Dominguez .
Yescas is the second person to be sentenced for the homicide. Joseph M. Lizarraga-Ortiz was sentenced in January to 20 years in state custody after he pleaded guilty to first-degree murder. Yescas was armed with a gun during the robbery, but it was Lizarraga-Ortiz who fired the fatal shot. Both defendants were 17 at the time…