The man who plead guilty to shooting three people at Westgate in Glendale in 2020 because he had “something bad inside of me” will be sentenced this week.
Armando Hernandez Jr., 23, this past April plead guilty to four counts, including two counts of attempted first degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault, stemming from the night of May 20, 2020 at approximately 7:25 p.m., when he carried an AR-15 assault rifle and three fully loaded magazines and walked almost the length of the Westgate Entertainment District targeting people and/or couples his age. All three victims — ages 16, 19 and 30 — survived, and during the melee Hernandez live streamed some of it on social media.
His sentencing in Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix is scheduled for 9 a.m. Friday, July 8. The Peoria resident faces up to 44 years.
