Rialto Playboyz and Evil Clash shooting at King Barbershop

P_LOKO Fri Jul 31, 2009 5:18 am

Shooter sentenced in San Bernardino barber shop homicide
By Mike Cruz
Created: 07/30/2009 06:09:01 PM PDT

A gunman who fatally shot a teenager outside a San Bernardino barber shop on New Years Eve 2005 was sentenced this morning to 14 years in state prison.

David Ramon Cimental shot 17-year-old Jose Morales, who he associated with a rival party crew, multiple times with a shotgun on New Years Eve 2005 outside King's Barbers, located in the 500 block of South Pepper Avenue, according to prosecutors.

Cimental, now 20, had pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter as part of a plea bargain at a May 6 hearing in San Bernardino Superior Court.

Authorities believe Sammy Dario Perez, another defendant named in the case, walked into the barber Shop and spotted Morales with his brothers.

Perez, now 22, was a member of The Playboys party crew, witnesses told police, and he associated Morales, who went by the moniker "Decaf," with another crew called Evil Clash, according to witness testimony at a May 2007 court hearing.

After "dogging" the victim with an intensely focused look, Perez walked outside and got on a cell phone, testified Morales' brother, Abraham Morales.

Jose Morales got a haircut and went outside to a Toyota pickup, his brother said. Within minutes, shotgun blasts pierced the air. Abraham Morales denied his brother was in a party crew or street gang, but said his brother did know Perez from school and may have had a conflict with him in the past.

Perez was sentenced to four years in state prison in November 2007. A jury found him guilty

in July 2007 of being an accessory but acquitted him of first-degree murder. Two months later, Perez pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter.