The second of two Dorchester men charged in a late 2009 shooting pleaded guilty yesterday, with both defendants now serving state prison terms instead of driving violence in Boston’s Cape Verdean community, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

VINCENT DAVIS (D.O.B. 10/16/91) yesterday admitted firing a volley of shots at a group on Albion Street on the night of Dec. 2, 2009. Several of those shots struck a 30-year-old Roxbury man, seriously injuring him. Prosecutors recommended a term of 10 to 12 years in state prison; Suffolk Superior Court Judge Carol Ball sentenced him to a term of eight to 10 years to be followed by three years of probation upon his release.

Davis was driven to the scene by co-defendant JESSE DEBURGO (D.O.B. 2/5/91), who pleaded guilty earlier this month. Deburgo is currently serving a five- to seven-year state prison sentence and will serve two years of probation upon his release.

“Both of these men are active participants in street violence that has injured and killed too many,” Conley said. “They’re part of a small group who commit disproportionate levels of violence in Boston, sometimes against rivals and sometimes – as in this case – against completely innocent men, women, and children.”

Had the case proceeded to trial, Assistant District Attorney Matthew Feeney of Conley’s Gang Unit would have introduced evidence and testimony to prove that Deburgo was aligned with the Cape Verdean Outlaws street gang and was bent on shooting rivals from the Uphams Corner area whom he believed responsible for prior acts of violence. Toward that end, the evidence would have shown, he drove Davis to Albion Street armed with a .40 caliber semiautomatic handgun.

At about 9:30 p.m., Deburgo pulled up near 10 Albion St. At that point, Feeney would have demonstrated, Davis exited the car and fired nine shots at a group of three men walking down the street.

“No one in that group was involved in gang activity,” Conley said.

One man was struck in the shoulder and thigh, and a round even grazed his skull. He underwent emergency surgery at Boston Medical Center and recovered from his injuries.

Witnesses at and near the scene provided Boston Police with information that proved critical in stopping the men’s vehicle on nearby Fuller Street less than half an hour later. The gun was recovered from Davis’ person at his arrest, it proved to be a ballistic match to shell casings recovered at the scene, and Davis himself tested positive for gunshot residue. The car was registered to a member of Deburgo’s family.

Witness participation extended to the Suffolk County Grand Jury, where civilian testimony helped prosecutors secure indictments against both men for armed assault with intent to murder and related offenses in March of this year.

Jessica Sheehan was the DA’s assigned victim-witness advocate. Davis was represented by attorney Paul Carrigan and Deburgo by attorney Richard Doyle.