A 19-year-old Auburn man was found guilty of first-degree murder for a 2023 incident in which he shot another man at an Auburn Way intersection.
On April 24, a King County Superior Court jury found Jesus Castaneda-Peraza guilty of first-degree murder and first-degree assault, and he additionally pleaded guilty to first-degree unlawful possession of a firearm.
Castaneda-Peraza’s charges stem from a May 30, 2023, incident when Castaneda-Peraza was 16 years old, in which he fatally shot Fabian Gonzalez, 20, while Gonzalez sat in the passenger seat of a car driven by Castaneda-Peraza’s girlfriend…