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TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A lawsuit wherever a antheral who murdered his person due to the fact that helium thought his woman cheated connected him successful 2020 has reached a verdict, the Tulare County District Attorney's Office announced Wednesday.
According to the DA, in aboriginal August 2020, 36-year-old Antonio Mendoza Chavez Jr. broke up with his girlfriend, forcibly removing her from his trailer successful Yokuts Valley. Left with nothing, she turned to a person of Chavez's who fto her enactment the night.
Court records authorities connected Aug. 14, 2020, Chavez's woman told him astir her enactment astatine his friends pursuing their breakup, having already reconciled. Believing she cheated connected him, Chavez grew aggravated and worked passim the time connected obtaining and test-firing a .22 AR-15 rifle.
Late that night, attorneys accidental Chavez forced his woman with him to his friend's location successful Dinuba. There, Chavez changeable the unfortunate erstwhile successful the eye, sidesplitting him. They returned northbound wherever Chavez burned their apparel and the car tires.
A fewer weeks aboriginal connected Sept. 4, the DA says Chavez was detained successful the Sultana country aft a conveyance pursuit with instrumentality enforcement.
On Aug. 30, 2024, prosecutors study 36-year-old Antonio Mendoza Chavez Jr. was declared blameworthy and convicted of the execution of a Dinuba antheral in August 2020.
At trial, tribunal documents authorities a assemblage convicted Chavez of first-degree execution with the peculiar allegation of usage of a firearm. Chavez volition look beingness successful situation astatine his sentencing successful October.
