Real Honorio gets life sentence for killing innocent bystander Keni Su'a during gang war

For gunning down innocent bystander, Keni Su'a as he ran from a gang shooting at a the Bolsa Restaurant in 2009, Real Honorio has been handed a life sentence with no chance of parole for 16years.

Honoriowascharged with several murders stemming from a gang war that ended seven years ago.

Hepleaded guilty to one count of second-degree murder after his lawyers, Tonii Roulston and Andrea Urquhart,negotiated theplea dealwith prosecutors Steven Johnston and Adam May.

"Mr. Honorio's actions express a ruthless disregard for life, not onlyof rival gang members, but of the public in general by shooting aninnocent person in the back," said JusticeWilliamTillemanwhen delivering the sentence.

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The FOB vs. FK gang war peaked in January 2009 when Sanjeev Mann, Aaron Bendle and Su'a were gunned down in a gang revenge plot at the Bolsa Vietnamese Restaurant.

Between 2002 and 2009, 25 people died in the gang war.

Mann, 22, was a known gangster and Bendle, 21, was an associate who had been kidnapped and used as bait to lure Mann to the restaurant. Su'a, an innocent bystander, was killed when he ran from the restaurant.

A second-degree murder conviction comes with an automatic life sentence with no chance of parole for 10 to25 years.

Crown prosecutors Steven Johnston and Adam May proposed a parole ineligibility of 20 years while Honorio's lawyers, Tonii Roulston and Andrea Urquhart, asked the judge to consider 12 years.

Honorio has already served about seven years of his sentence.

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