A man who shot a Marine to death outside a strip club in San Bernardino in 2016 before fleeing to Mexico was convicted of murder yesterday (Tuesday, June 25). In a press release, San Bernardino police said the jury also found Arturo Perez Medina, 24, guilty of being in a criminal street gang and being a felon in possession of a firearm. The family of the victim, 20-year-old Douglas Rivas of Twentynine Palms, flew in from Maryland for the verdict, and Marines also attended.
On April 17, 2016, Rivas was serving as a designated driver when he and fellow Marines were at the Flesh Club. Rivas was outside his vehicle waiting for his friends; police say Medina approached him and—for unknown reasons—shot and killed Rivas. Authorities say Medina and three others, Carlos Aznaran, Henry Nuñez and Raul Cervantes, drove off. Court records do not indicate that Nuñez or Cervantes were charged. Medina, who investigators say was hiding in Tijuana, was arrested in October 2016.
