CHARLOTTE — Two members of MS-13 will spend 35 years in prison for the murder of a man in east Charlotte.
A judge sentenced Christian Alejandro Garcia Santa Cruz and Aderly Jose Veliz Ronquillo on Wednesday.
They were convicted in the 2022 fatal shooting of Wilson Gutierrez.
Gutierrez was killed outside a nightclub off Central Avenue.
Prosecutors said Cruz and Ronquillo committed the murder to increase their position in the gang.
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