Man sentenced to 23 years in deadly shooting on Metro bus in White Center, WA
Seattle Metro bus shooter to be sentenced
A young man guilty of a deadly shooting in White Center will be sentenced on Friday.
SEATTLE - A young man was sentenced to 23 years and four months behind bars for a deadly shooting on a King County Metro bus in White Center in October 2023.
The backstory:
Miguel Rivera Dominguez, who was 17 years old at the time, shot and killed 21-year-old Marcel Wagner. Court documents said around 15 other people were aboard the bus when the shooting occurred.
Dominguez was with another teenager, and they boarded the bus, rode it for a time, before Dominguez pulled out a handgun and unloaded it into the victim, seemingly at random. Dominguez yelled at the bus driver to let him out, and he and the other teenager got off the bus and left.
Court documents also said Dominguez and Wagner did not know each other and had no prior interaction before the shooting.
The next month, Dominguez turned himself in at the King County Sheriff's Office.
White Center bus killing suspect turns himself in
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Dominguez was initially charged with first-degree murder but pleaded guilty to amended charges in July.
A judge sentenced Dominguez to 280 months of confinement and three years of community custody on Friday afternoon. He also ordered a no contact order between Dominguez and Wagner's family, and for Dominguez to pay restitution, with the amount to be determined in the future.
Marcel Wagner's family was present in court during Dominguez's sentencing, displaying the victim's photo, drawings, and his urn.
The Source: Information in this story came from original reporting by FOX 13 Seattle.
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