Two get eight years for 1982 killing and assault at Rowland Heights Park

Two men were sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison for fatally stabbing a Valinda man and injuring his friend at a Rowland Heights Park 31 y...

July 7, 2023
6:48 AM

Two men were sentenced Wednesday to eight years in prison for fatally stabbing a Valinda man and injuring his friend at a Rowland Heights Park 31 years ago . Gilbert Leal, 52, of Riverside County and Marcelino Diablos Corona, 50, of Fontana took the deal offered by the judge and pleaded no contest to the voluntary manslaughter of 20-year-old Richard Hernandez and assaulting with a deadly weapon then 19-year-old Daniel Ontiveros on Aug. 8, 1982. Corona also pleaded no contest to the allegation that he personally used a knife to commit the killing and Leal pleaded no contest to the allegation he personally inflicted great bodily injury on Ontiveros.

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