CARLSBAD: Man who shot fellow gang member sentenced  A young man
who accidentally shot and killed a fellow gang member during a
fight with rivals at a Carlsbad park was sentenced on Wednesday
to 31 years in state prison.  Javier Antonio Lopez, 21, pleaded
guilty to voluntary manslaughter and a firearm allegation in the
April 4, 2009, killing of 21-year-old Juan Carlos Balderas.
Police said Lopez, Balderas, Victor Virjilio Lopez and Jose
Angel Barraza ---- members of an Encinitas gang ---- went to the
park to fight rival gang members.  Balderas was accidentally
shot by Lopez during the attempted murder of a rival, Deputy
District Attorney Geoff Allard said.  Barraza, 28, who also
pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter, was sentenced today to
24 years behind bars.  Victor Lopez ---- Javier's cousin ----
testified at an earlier preliminary that members of his gang
went to Carlsbad that night to shoot a rival from a Carlsbad
gang as payback for the non-fatal shooting of a younger family
member by a Carlsbad ga