Teen convicted in shooting

ROSEBURG, Ore. – A judge convicted Vincent Leodoro on Thursday of shooting a Roseburg schoolmate in the back, an assault a detective said appeared to be motivated by animosity over girls.

“I screwed up,” the teenager, now 15, said in a videotaped interview with the detective that was shown in court. “I shouldn’t have done it.” Leodoro faces up to a decade in custody in juvenile prison.

He was accused of wounding 16-year-old Joseph Monti, who was hit four times in the Feb. 23 assault.

Roseburg police Detective Joe Kaney testified that the conflict appeared to have stemmed from Leodoro’s irritation over the way Monti joined the younger teen’s group of friends and won the attention of two of Leodoro’s female friends.