Two Men Sentenced For Deadly Gang-Related Shooting On The Ventura Beach Parking Structrure

Friday March 03, 2023

 (top photo Bolanos/bottom photo Nunez)

    Updated--The two men convicted of being involved in a deadly gang related shooting on the top of the Ventura Beach Promenade parking structure more than three years ago have been sentenced.

     27-year-old Raymond Bolanos of Oxnard was sentenced Friday to 90-years-to-life in prison while an accomplice, 29-year-old Julian Nunez of Santa Paula, received 19-years 4-months in prison.

      A jury last year convicted Bolanos of second degree murder and attempted murder plus use of a firearm and more than 36 special allegations.

     Meanwhile, the jury convicted Nunez on a lesser charge of assault with a firearm and other firearms violations plus almost 20 special allegations.

     They found him not guilty of shooting out of the vehicle.

     The same jury also said the shooting was gang related.

     The 8 week long trial centered on the deadly incident in which the people inside of one vehicle, including Bolanos and Nunez, got into an altercation with several other people standing outside of another vehicle on the top level of the Harbor Boulevard parking structure in Ventura.

     Shots were fired from Bolanos from inside the vehicle striking two of the people standing outside.

     One of them, Alejandro Hernandez of Ventura, was killed while another person was wounded but survived.

     While the jury decided that Nunez did not shoot at or hurt anyone in the incident, they did decide he was armed and was involved in pointing a gun at the victims.

     After the shooting, the vehicle carrying Bolanos and Nunez fled the area but was spotted and was involved in a short pursuit into Oxnard where it crashed.

     Bolanos and Nunez were caught and arrested.

     One other person in the vehicle was detained but not prosecuted in connection with the incident.