Two found beaten to death on trail in 2015, CA officials say. Now men convicted

Two men are facing prison time after being convicted in the killing of a teen and a woman, California officials said.

In 2015, Jose Antonio Echeverria, 28, and Dallas Stone Pineda, 27, described by prosecutors as gang members, lured Brianna Gallegos, 17, and Gabriella Calzada, 19, to a remote area in the Ernest E. Debs Regional Park in Montecito Heights, a neighborhood in northeast Los Angeles, according to a Sept. 30 news release by the Los Angeles District County District Attorney’s Office.

Echeverria and Pineda are accused of shooting the woman and the teen and beating them to death with a rock, prosecutors said.

In 2016, the two men pleaded not guilty, officials told NBC 4.

They were both convicted on charges of murder with special circumstance allegations of hiding with the intent of killing multiple victims, officials said.

“These brutal killings cut short the lives of two teenagers and left their families devastated,” Los Angeles County District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said in the release. “This verdict delivers justice for the victims, and I want to thank our Gang Homicide Division in particular Deputy District Attorneys David Ayvazian and Stephen Lonseth for their tireless work in pursuing this case.”

They are facing life in prison without the possibility of parole and are scheduled to be sentenced in December, prosecutors said.