MOUNT VERNON, Wash. – A 15-year-old arrested in connection with the shooting of Mount Vernon Police Officer Mike McClaughry pleaded guilty to assault charges.
Roberto Lopez Jr. agreed in court Monday to be sentenced as an adult for second degree assault with a deadly weapon and fourth degree assault.
The second degree assault charge is for a previous incident that happened the night McClaughry was shot. The fourth degree assault charge is for an unrelated domestic violence incident that happened in November and was pending the night of the McClaughry shooting.
McClaughry was critically injured in the shooting Dec. 15 after responding to a gang-related shooting.
Lopez was previously charged in juvenile court for attempted premeditated murder in the first degree of McClaughry and attempted murder in the second degree of Kyler Parker, who was injured in an earlier shooting. The charges related to the McClaughry shooting were dropped.
Lopez was sentenced to six months and 15 days.
44-year-old Ernesto Lee Rivas and 16-year-old Austin Isaias Gonzalez were also charged with attempted premeditated murder of McClaughry. Gonzalez has also been charged with the attempted murder of Parker.
