Man pleads guilty to shooting to death two men at Auburn bus stop

A 20-year-old man pleaded guilty April 27 to a drive-by shooting that killed two men at a bus stop in Auburn on Oct. 20, 2015.

Froilan Hermenegildo pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder with firearm enhancements, one count of unlawful possession of a firearm in the first degree and two counts of possession of a stolen vehicle for the killings of 19-year-old Angel Mireles and 40-year-old Mark Rivera, who was Mireles’ stepfather.

Hermenegildo faces a sentence range of about 38 to 54 years in prison, which includes firearm enhancements.

Sentencing will be at 2:45 p.m. June 2 before Judge Chad Allred in courtroom 4B of the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent. Senior Deputy Prosecutors John Castleton and Steve Herschkowitz handled the prosecution.

The shooting happened sometime before 5:30 p.m. Oct. 20 at a bus stop at 17th Street Southeast and B Street Southeast in a residential neighborhood off A Street, according to Auburn Police.

According to Auburn Police, Rivera and his two sons were sitting at a bus stop when someone drove up. Mireles approached the vehicle to talk to Hermenegildo, but Hermenegildo pulled out a gun and shot Mireles in the face. Rivera was then shot, also in the face, as he ran to approach his fallen stepson.

Mireles was pronounced dead at the scene. Rivera was taken to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where he died the next day.

Hermenegildo and his girlfriend were later found at the girlfriend’s home in Auburn. The blood-spattered stolen car was found abandoned in the Tacoma area.