The three teenagers dropped to the floor and shuffled toward the hallway when a man fired a pistol five times into the bedroom where they were watching "SpongeBob SquarePants" on TV.

The Oct. 14, 2017, shooting at the house in Gresham grew out of an altercation there earlier in the night between one of the teens and a convicted felon named Jorge Beltran.

Beltran, now 27, had reportedly smashed a front window at the house in the 2100 block of Southeast 185th Avenue to confront one of the teens. He left the house after a fistfight, and, according to court documents, declared he would return with the intention of "shooting up the place and killing the occupants."

He did return about an hour later, a jury concluded, and pumped five bullets into the bedroom from outside the house. A jury convicted Beltran last August of attempted murder and firearms charges for the shooting.

The Multnomah District Attorney's Office announced Friday that Beltran had received a 12-year prison sentence.

"This case was about pride," Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Nicole Hermann said during the trial's closing arguments. "It was about retaliation and it was about a calculated decision to return to the scene of an earlier argument and to attempt to murder the three individuals who had been involved in that argument."

-- Douglas Perry