San Diego
A police detective testified Monday that a man accused in the downtown drive-by shooting of three people told him he shot the victims “for their own good.”
Detective Robert Brown said at the preliminary hearing that Rolando Ignacio admitted shooting the people. Brown testified that he asked Ignacio after his arrest, “Why did you shoot those people?” and that Ignacio replied, “Because I was angry.”
“ ‘I put the bullets in the gun and I went downtown to shoot someone,’ ” Brown said Ignacio told him.
A San Marcos couple also testified, from wheelchairs, about their wounds. Robert Mengar, 59, and his fiancee, Cynthia Conyiers, 37, appeared at the hearing for Ignacio, 25, of Encanto.
The Nov. 22 shootings, which also wounded Susan Snyder, 29, of San Diego, occurred as Mengar and Conyiers were leaving a Lions Club meeting.
San Diego Municipal Judge Joe Littlejohn ordered Ignacio to stand trial on three counts of attempted murder and three counts of assault with a deadly weapon. Littlejohn left bail at $500,000 and ordered Ignacio, who is in County Jail, to appear Feb. 10 for arraignment and trial setting.
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