After deliberating about 12 hours over three days, on July 15 a jury convicted Aaron Sung-Uk Park, 24, of attempted manslaughter and felony assault in the 2007 shooting of a man in Pacific Beach. Park faces up to 36 years in prison when he is sentenced on Aug. 26 by San Diego Superior Court Judge Francis Devaney. The jury found that Park committed great bodily injury to Eric Joseph, 27, who was shot in both legs and in his right hip on Sept. 23, 2007, around 2 a.m. outside a taco shop on Garnet Avenue at Bayard Street. Deputy District Attorney Makenzie Harvey said the sentence Park faces includes a 10-year term for personally using a gun in a crime, and a prior felony conviction may add even more time. She said probation has been ruled out. The seven-man, five-woman jury acquitted Park of attempted murder, a charge that carried a life sentence. Park, of Las Vegas, was in Pacific Beach to see his brother, David Park, 26, who for three months had been arrested and wrongly charged for shooting Joseph. Aaron and David Park resemble each other as reflected in an artist’s sketch police released at the time. David Park’s attorney, William Nimmo, persuaded the DA’s office to dismiss charges against his client. A surveillance video showed the Asian gunman wearing a short sleeved shirt without tattoos. David Park has several visible tattoos on his arms. Aaron Park was arrested on Jan. 24, 2008. According to an audiotape played at the trial, Park allegedly was angry and yelling, “Who pushed me?” Park then allegedly pulled out a gun and fired three times, striking Joseph who was walking by with friends. Joseph was close enough to Park to grab the gun during the struggle. The trial lasted two weeks. Park remains in the Vista Detention Facility without bail.