BY ADRIANA HERNANDEZ
Daily Post Staff Writer
A man involved in the murder of a 17-year-old Carlmont High School senior in 2019 was sentenced to 16 years in prison yesterday, a prosecutor said.
Ruben Gonzales-Magallanes, 27, of Indianapolis, was sentenced for manslaughter and robbery after he took a plea deal on Aug. 13, District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said.
Mohammad Othman, 17, was shot and killed on Jan. 7, 2019, in Belmont. Othman was a senior at Carlmont, the high school in Belmont, and was a defensive back and wide receiver on the football team.
The night of the murder, Gonzales-Magallanes and four others met with Othman and another teenager to complete the drug deal that Gonzales-Magallanes and his friends had “no intent to finish” in the parking lot of Central Elementary School at 525 Middle Road, according to Wagstaffe.
The group never intended to sell Othman the marijuana he wanted to buy from them, but instead robbed Othman and his friend, Wagstaffe said. But Wagstaffe said that Othman and his friend were planning to rip off the group of five.
Three of the five participated in the robbery and helped plan the drug deal that led to Othman’s death and left another teenager injured after being pistol-whipped by Gonzales-Magallanes, the DA said.
Othman got out of the car to run away when he was shot by Gonzales Magallanes and Antonio Marco Valencia, 25, of Concord.
Gonzales-Magallanes will serve his term at the same time as a lengthy sentence he received in Indiana, Wagstaffe said. Gonzalez-Magallanes was arrested in July 2020 on suspicion of murder in Speedway, Ind., for shooting an 18-year-old, police said at the time.
Valencia is set to appear in court on Oct. 14 for a pretrial.