Man who killed the son of the city council of Oakland in Los Angeles, sentenced to 35 years – the Mercury News

Los Angeles – The man who killed the son of a former city council member in Oakland as a student at the University of Southern California in 2019 was sentenced to 35 years in prison, according to the public prosecutor's office in Los Angeles.

The 29-year-old Ivan Hernandez pleaded in January in January against the murder of 21-year-old Victor Mcelhaney in a botched robbery.

Mcelhaney was the son of Lynette Gibson Mcelhaney, who worked in the Oakland city council from 2012 to 2020. At the time of his death, Mcelhaney was senior at the USC Thornton School of Music.

The district prosecutor of Los Angeles, Nathan J. Hochman, said in a statement in January that Hernandez 'No Contest Plus “ensures that the person who is responsible for the senseless and tragic murder of Victor Mcelhaney will be exposed to the consequence of his actions.”

“Victor was a promising young, 21-year-old university student, a talented drummer and active member of the USC Center for Black Cultural and Student Affairs, whose life was canceled by an act of pure violence,” said Hochman. “Our office is aggressively responsible for those who threaten the security of our communities and we will not tolerate such hideous crimes.”

In March 2019, Mcelhaney was just outside the USC campus near Maple Avenue and Adams Boulevard when he was addressed by three or four men. One of the men shot Mcelhaney, then the group fled in a vehicle.

The men had tried to rob Mcelhaney and the friends with whom he was with, the prosecutors said.

When firefighters reacted to the incident, they found Mcelhaney in a critical condition. He later died in the hospital.