Bail set at $5 million for gang member accused of shooting deputy
A known gang member, accused of shooting a Riverside County Sheriff’s Deputy, appeared in an Indio courtroom Monday.
Watch: KESQ live from Larson Justice Center at 12 p.m.
He denied all allegations against him, pleading ‘not guilty’ in the case. A judge set bail at five million dollars.
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Gildardo Davila, 27, has been charged with the attempted murder Deputy David Solis after allegedly shooting him in Coachella on Thursday, May 25.
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A week after the shooting authorities arrested Davila, living with family in Mexicali.
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He has also been charged with two counts of being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, two drug-related felonies and one count of evading arrest.
News Channel 3 and CBS Local 2’s Lauren Coronado is in the courtroom at the Larson Justice Center in Indio.
Davila will also make a court appearance this afternoon related to his role as a witness in the upcoming murder trial of Thomas Gonzalez, 21, and Conrad Joseph Diaz, 33, who are accused of fatally shooting 18-year-old Jose Zaragoza on Nov. 11, 2014. Read: Man suspected of shooting deputy also witness in unrelated murder trial
Davila’s exact role in the case is unclear, but Gonzalez and Diaz face life without the possibility of parole if convicted of one count of murder and four counts of attempted murder with special circumstance allegations of lying in wait and shooting from a vehicle.
They are accused of firing on Zaragoza and several others in an alley between Harrison Street and Tripoli Way in Coachella. Witnesses told a sheriff’s investigator that they were drinking beer and hanging out in the alley that night when they saw a white Jeep Grand Cherokee slowly coming toward them with the lights off. The SUV stopped and someone in the vehicle said, “We got you,” according to witnesses, one of whom said someone in the Jeep pointed a gun at his head but he pushed it away. More: Today’s Top Stories
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