According to NBC 10 in Providence, the last of four defendants charged in a July 2020 double-shooting in New Bedford was sentenced to five years in state prison. Brian Ortiz pleaded guilty in Fall River Superior Court last week to assault and battery and gun counts in connection to a shooting that happened outside Petromart gas station on Coggeshall Street where Ortiz and other gang members got into a fight. Ortiz faces an additional two years of supervised probation. 

Three co-defendants were previously sentenced to prison.