Ventura County Sheriff's Department

Mauricio Chavez, 21 of Fillmore, was sentenced Thursday in connection with what the authorities say were gang related shootings in west Ventura last July that left a man in his mid-30’s injured, and a nine year old girl with a gunshot would to her leg.

Chavez was sentenced to 18-years in state prison after pleading guilty to two counts of assault with a firearm, one count of street terrorism, two special allegations of committing a crime for the benefit of a criminal street gang, two special allegations of use of a firearm and two special allegations of causing gross bodily injury.

The shootings happened on the late afternoon of June 23, 2015 in the 400 block of W. Ramona Avenue.

The man and nine-year-old girl were left with non-life threatening injuries.

Ventura police investigated the incident and arrested Chavez on unrelated charges a week later.

He was charged a month later with the shootings while still in jail in the unrelated case.