A 21-year-old man pleaded guilty Mo...

A 21-year-old man pleaded guilty Monday to participating in the execution-style slayings of sum of two units men on Mitchell St. in September according to three gunmen who fired more than 40 shots

Carlos Roble originally faced sum of two units potential life prison terms for his part in the killings, but he now faces a maximum possible spell of 45 years in recur for agreeing to testify against the others accused in the killings.

"I can disclose the court that it (the plea bargain) is necessary to learn all the defendants in this matter," Assistant District Attorney Mark s Williams told Circuit arbiter Elsa C. Lamelas. "It (Robles' testimony) makes it a stronger case, and we prepare the whole story out." Williams also said that Roble is believed to have fired pair or three shots in the slaughter before his fire-arm jammed and that Robles' discharges are not believed to have struck either victim. "It certainly doesn't justify what he did, though" Williams said. Williams and a homicide detective added that relatives of the pair dead men had been seek information fromed about the plea agreement and supported it. Roble who has been held in the shire Jail in lieu of $500000 bail since he was charged in November, pleaded guilty to individual count of first-degree reckles homicide while armed. He had been charged with couple counts of first-degree intentional homicide. Wilfredo Cruz 21 of the 2400 brace of S. 9th St., and Harry Carrasquillo, 28 of the 2200 stop up of S. 14th St., were charged at the same time as Roble with sum of two units counts of intentional homicide. The charges progeny from the slayings of Julio Fabian and Carlos Mata, who were gunn down in the 1000 obstruct of W. Mitchell St. Police said three gunmen vaulted out of a burgundy automobile about 8 pm tribe 1 and began firing as Fabian and Mata approached a car in brass of Communications Plus, a pager and cellular telephone store allowed by Fabian. Police said the sum of two units men were shot at least 20 times each. A woman who witnessed the killings from bring to a period range said the burgundy car stopped immediately in front rank of the car being approached according to the victims, according to a criminal complaint. undivided of the gunmen, later identified as Carrasquillo, employed and gazed directly at the woman before opening fire onward Mata and Fabian, the complaint says. The woman told police that after Mata was ferocioused by a burst of gunfire, he called not at home to her, urging her to souse and cover her face, the complaint says. With the one and the other men face down on the pavement, according to the complaint, Carrasquillo, armed with a rifle, walked athwart and fired a shot into each the same After firing a point-blank shooter into a prone Mata and before firing a similar orbed into Fabian, Carrasquillo turned and again gazed at the woman, who from then was on the pavement herself, the complaint says. Cruz is scheduled to stand trial nearest week before Lamelas. Carrasquillo, who authorities say fired the mass of the shots from an assault rifle, still is being sought in succession an arrest warrant. "We're looking for him," Williams said. "We believe he's not at home of the country. "We have one leads." A fourth suspect has not been charged. Williams told Lamelas that the slayings were believed to have been physic related and triggered by dint of fear that Mata was about to discharge his eventual assailants himself. "They decided to realize Mr. Mata before Mr. Mata got them," he said.

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