Chula Vista

A 21-year-old construction worker was shot three times when two groups of students from separate Chula Vista high schools met in a park Monday night to finish an argument started in a Tijuana bar, said a Chula Vista police spokeswoman.

Daniel J. Ballesteros of Chula Vista was with one group of high school students, Officer Carol Torres said. He was treated for superficial wounds on his face, chest and abdomen, and released from Kaiser Permanente Hospital, spokesman Jim McBride said.

Torres said Ballesteros was shot by Jesus Renteria, 19, a student at Southwestern College in Chula Vista who had brought a shotgun and fired four shots, hitting the victim in the chest, face, and left eye. Renteria was arrested on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon and is being held in County Jail downtown on $10,000 bail.

The altercation in Tijuana between two minors began over the weekend and continued across the border, where a fight broke out at a Jack in the Box restaurant in San Ysidro, Torres said, adding that San Diego police were called, but that no one was injured or arrested.

The teen-agers decided to settle the dispute Monday at Greg Rogers Park on Oleander Avenue, where students and adults carrying clubs and steel bars met at 8:17 p.m., Torres said.