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Inglewood man receives three life sentences for 2018 triple murder

An Inglewood man was sentenced Wednesday to three consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole for murdering three people and attempting to kill two others, including his pregnant girlfriend, in two shootings in Gardena and Lynwood on the same day.

Selvin Fabian Salazar, 32, was convicted last month in the July 31, 2018, shooting death of 28-year-old Dolores Sanchez; his friend, 28-year-old Francisco Montes; and Saith Pedraza, who died just over two years later at age 39 from a gunshot wound to the neck that left him a paraplegic.

“You are a cold-blooded murderer,” Supreme Court Justice Scott T. Millington told the defendant during sentencing, adding that in his opinion Salazar “should never, ever, ever get out of state prison.”