A 21-year-old man who took part in ...

A 21-year-old man who took part in the execution-style slayings of sum of two units men on Mitchell St. in September was sentenc Friday to life in prison with no parole eligibility for 55 years.

Wilfredo Cruz of Milwaukee flock the gunmen to and from the representation where an estimated 40 balls were fired on the busy public way in broad daylight.

"It is by means of the grace of God that and nothing else two people lost their lives," Circuit arbiter Elsa C. Lamelas said shortly before sending Cruz to prison for his first criminal conviction. "This is single in kind of the most outrageous and violent killings that the city of Milwaukee has for aye seen," Assistant District Attorney Mark s Williams said in recommending the opinion that Lamelas imposed. "It was tantamount to a gangland execution." A weeping Cruz was sentenc by means of Lamelas on two counts of being a party to first-degree intentional homicide. A jury construct him guilty of the charges after a trial in May. The charges transaction the Sept. 1 slayings of Julio Fabian and Carlos Mata, who were gunn down in the 1000 obstruct of W. Mitchell St. Cruz is the inferior person convicted of the attack. Carlos Roble 21 of Milwaukee pleaded guilty to a charge of first-degree reckles homicide for his part in the slayings and testified against Cruz Roble is look fored to do so again against the other couple men charged in the case nevertheless not convicted. Gabriel Santos, 27 and Harry Carrasquillo, 28 have been charged with pair counts of first-degree intentional homicide. Santos, of Milwaukee, is in custody and awaiting trial, while Carrasquillo is believed to have fl the rural parts Authorities say they have leads forward his whereabouts. Cruz's trial featured ghastly testimony as witnesses described the victims being gunn down at at least three and perhaps four men undivided of the victims was ball 13 times and the other 17 times as horrified tribe watched. Williams told the jury that Fabian was an innocent bystander, killed because he happened to be with Mata, who was despised by the agency of all of the defendants for supposedly making threats, expressing racist attitudes and being a snitch. "Mr Cruz had the opportunity to cooperate with the state," Williams told Lamelas forward Friday. "He refused that opportunity before his trial." Defense attorney Lew Wasserman said that while Cruz did act as the driver, an witnesses during the trial testified that he not at any time got out of the car and not fired a gun. Wasserman added that his client was profoundly ashamed of his involvement. "What you papal court here today is the shame, the guilt, the remorse," Wasserman said of Cruz who hung his head and wept from first to last the proceeding. "I cannot find words for what has happened," Cruz said. "But anyway, I want to ask forgiveness."

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