Two young men pleaded guilty this week to their roles in the retaliation shooting of rival gang members on May 31 in Pasco.

Jaime J. Tovar, 16, was sentenced in Franklin County Superior Court to three months in jail for second-degree assault. He has served the time since his arrest for the crime and has been released.

Ivan Madred Valdez, 18, got a one-year, three-month prison sentence for second-degree assault and drive-by shooting.

He apologized to the judge, saying he was sorry for putting his family through this and doesn't want to be back before the court.

A co-defendant, Juvenal Torres, 19, faces trial Oct. 19 for first-degree assault and drive-by shooting.

Torres is accused of firing several rounds from the front passenger seat of a Honda Accord toward a house at Fourth Avenue and A Street. The home is said to be visited by members of a rival gang involved in a shooting at a Kennewick Sun Mart on May 30.

Police and court documents said the May 31 incident was in retaliation for what happened the night before.

In that shooting, Tovar was shot in the leg.

According to documents, Kennewick police were called to Jack Didley's on Kennewick Avenue late May 29 for reports of a fight between members and associates of two rival gangs. Torres was one of the men asked to leave the club.

Torres and Tovar then walked to Sun Mart and met three other young men. It was just after midnight when several people saw a front seat passenger in a minivan open fire on the group in the parking lot, documents said.

That's when Tovar was wounded.

Just before the shots were fired, someone inside the van reportedly yelled out the name of a gang.

Valdez, as part of his plea for the May 31 late-night shooting, said he was an accomplice to the assault when a deadly weapon was pointed at the victims and was in the car when shots were "recklessly discharged."

His lawyer, Karla Kane, said before her client's arrest, he had been "doing fairly well" in counseling and had "definitely made some strides in the right direction."

Tovar, before entering his guilty plea, agreed to give up all of his rights as a juvenile for the adult court case.

In his plea statement, Tovar said he was in a car with some friends looking to assault others because of an earlier argument when they found the men and Torres shot at them.

Deputy Prosecutor Teddy Chow said prosecutors believe Tovar's "role in this was not as great as his co-defendants," and that's why they recommended the three-month jail term at the bottom of the standard range.

Defense attorney Shelley Ajax said her client had made a conscious effort to not hang out with certain people. She told the court it was an appropriate resolution for Tovar, and he knows now he can't hang around gang members, particularly while on community supervision for 18 months.

Chow also made it clear to the court that the plea agreement in each case did not involve Tovar or Valdez having to testify in any other matter.