Officials ID Man Accused of Killing Pomona Police Officer, Injuring Another Amid Hours-Long Standoff
Officials ID Man Accused of Killing Pomona Police Officer, Injuring Another Amid Hours-Long Standoffby wpjljron
Sunday, March 11th, 2018.Officials ID Man Accused of Killing Pomona Police Officer, Injuring Another Amid Hours-Long StandoffA man who allegedly shot and killed a Pomona police officer and injured another has been taken into custody following an 15-hour standoff with authorities Saturday. Isaias De Jesus Valencia, 39, is suspected of killing Greggory Casillas, 30, who had been with the department since 2014 and leaves behind a wife and two small children, officials […]
A man who allegedly shot and killed a Pomona police officer and injured another has been taken into custody following an 15-hour standoff with authorities Saturday.
Prosecutors had announced in May 2018 that they would seek the death penalty for Borjas.
Shortly after being sworn into office last December, Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón issued a series of directives, including one that “a sentence of death is never an appropriate resolution in any case.”
Since then, prosecutors have opted not to seek the death penalty in at least two other high-profile cases involving Kenneth Earl Gay, who is charged in the 1983 killing of a Los Angeles police officer in Lake View Terrace, and Michael Christopher Mejia, an admitted gang member accused of killing a family member in East Los Angeles and then opening fire on two Whittier police officers, killing one and wounding the other.
By City News Service
Mar 6, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The Los Angeles County District Attorney s Office dropped its bid today to seek the death penalty against a Torrance man charged with raping and murdering a teenage girl and a young woman who were found dead less than a year apart.
Geovanni Borjas, 36, is charged with murder and rape in the April 24, 2011, killing of 17-year-old Michelle Lozano and the Dec. 26, 2011, slaying of 22-year-old Bree Anna Guzman, along with a charge that he kidnapped Guzman to commit another crime.
The murder charges include the special circumstance allegations of multiple murders, murder during the commission of a rape involving both victims and murder during the commission of a kidnapping involving Guzman.
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