Young man involved in killing at Moreno Valley party sentenced

A young man who joined his cousin in an alleged racially motivated attack that killed an 18-year-old partygoer in Moreno Valley was sentenced Friday, June 24, to 11 years in state prison.Jared Lee Zesk, 20, of Riverside pleaded guilty last month to voluntary manslaughter under an agreement with the Riverside County district attorney’s office. Zesk was originally charged with murder, but that count was reduced in the plea deal.During a hearing at the Riverside Hall of Justice, Superior Court Judge Matthew Perantoni certified the terms of the negotiated plea and imposed the sentence stipulated by the prosecution and defense.The defendant’s cousin, Darren Peter Zesk, also 20 and from Riverside, is charged with first-degree murder, special-circumstance allegations of lying in w
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