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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A 37-year-old antheral who killed his person successful Dinuba successful 2020 due to the fact that helium thought his woman was cheating connected him was sentenced to beingness connected Friday, the Tulare County District Attorney's Office said.
According to the DA, successful aboriginal August 2020, Antonio Mendoza Chavez Jr., who was 36 astatine the time, broke up with his woman and forcibly removed her from his trailer successful Yokuts Valley. The pistillate past turned to a person of Chavez, who fto her enactment the night.
37-year-old, Antonio Mendoza Chavez Jr.On August 14, 2020, Chavez's woman told him that she had spent the nighttime with his person during the breakup, the DA said.
According to the DA, the mates was successful Yokuts Valley astatine the time. Chavez believing she had cheated connected him, became aggravated and worked passim the time getting and test-firing a .22 AR-15 rifle.
Later that night, the DA said helium forced his woman to spell with him to the victim's location successful the Dinuba area. The DA said helium changeable the unfortunate erstwhile done his eye, which killed him.
The brace past returned north, wherever Chavez burned their apparel and the tires of the car.
The DA said a fewer weeks later, connected Sept. 4, 2020, Chavez went to the Sultana country and was detained by instrumentality enforcement aft a little conveyance case.
On Aug. 30, 2024, Chavez was convicted of first-degree execution with the peculiar allegation of usage of a firearm. He was sentenced to beingness successful situation connected Friday.
