Daniel Perez is asking for a sentence reduction under a state Supreme Court ruling that allows for sentence reductions for juveniles who were tried as adults. The victim s family says
29-year-old Irving Alvarez was pronounced dead at the scene by medical personnel and Ariella Gaughan, the 23-year-old Sonora woman in the 2002 Chevrolet truck, was sent to St. Joseph Hospital in Eureka.
Daniel Perez was only 15 years old when he killed rival gang member Octavio Rangel at the Yakima Transit Center in downtown Yakima during evening commute hours.