A man who pleaded guilty to the fatal shooting of a teen last year in the College Area was sentenced Thursday to 14 years in state prison.
David Rasean Vereen, 23, pleaded guilty to a voluntary manslaughter count June 1 in connection with the June 25, 2022, shooting of Kevin Burton, 18.
Police said Burton, then a recent Grossmont High School graduate who was set to attend San Diego Mesa College in the fall, just had left a house party with his friends when he was shot.
According to San Diego police, the victim and his friends were at a party on Art Street. Burton was struck by a bullet as their vehicle turned from Art onto El Cajon Boulevard. A second bullet struck an apartment complex window on El Cajon, police said, though no one was injured there.
Burton died later at a hospital.
Vereen, a San Diego resident, was arrested on July 1 in Bay Terraces.
– City News Service
