SAN DIEGO
A mentally ill San Diego man who admitted to deadly attacks primarily on homeless men killing three of them by hammering their bodies with railroad spikes was sentenced Tuesday to multiple terms of life in prison without parole.
Jon David Guerrero, 43, received four life sentences without parole, plus an additional 143 years to life in prison, for the attacks.
Guerrero’s sentencing in San Diego Superior Court came nearly a year after he pleaded guilty to murdering four people and assaulting nine others in the bizarre and brutal crimes in 2016.
Among the charges he admitted to four counts of murder, four counts of attempted murder and two counts of arson two of the slaying victims were set on fire.
Updated on January 12, 2021 at 7:47 pm
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A man who killed four people – including three homeless men – in a string of brutal murders and attacks in San Diego County in 2016 will spend the rest of his life in prison.
The Superior Court of California, County of San Diego, confirmed Tuesday that Jon David Guerrero, 43, was sentenced to four terms of life without the possibility of parole, plus 143 years to life. D
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Guerrero pleaded guilty to the murders in January 2020. He had attacked more than a dozen victims between February and July 2016, some of whom were set on fire, bludgeoned or impaled with railroad spikes.