Jury acquits two teens of murder Downtown shooting death; one convicted of lesser charges

Jurors on Friday acquitted two teenagers of first-degree murder in the 2024 shooting death of a 17-year-old boy at a Downtown parking structure.

But the jury found Ruben Valdez, 18, guilty of voluntary manslaughter and shooting at or from a vehicle for firing gunshots at the parking structure, fatally striking Mariano Salazar in the chest.

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