DA: Man sentenced in deadly shooting after softball in Tulare

TULARE COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - A antheral who changeable and killed a 28-year-old aft a softball crippled successful Tulare successful 2019 has been sentenced to beingness successful prison, the Tulare County District Attorney's Office said connected Friday.

In August 2019, the DA's bureau says the Tulare Police Department responded to the Prosperity Sports Complex for a study of a gunshot victim. When officers arrived they located a antheral with galore gunshot wounds. The unfortunate was aboriginal pronounced dormant astatine a section hospital.

Officials aboriginal identified the victim arsenic 28-year-old Jesus Marquez.

According to the DA's office, witnesses stated that aft the softball game, the suspect, 31-year-old Christopher Gonzalez from McFarland (who did not play successful the game) approached Marquez portion lasting adjacent to his motortruck successful the parking lot.

The DA's bureau says that Gonzalez spoke to Marquez and past changeable him. Gonzalez past drove away. Three days later, detectives were capable to find Gonzalez astatine a location successful Shafter utilizing compartment telephone pings.

31-year-old Christopher Gonzalez

On Aug. 26 of this year, Gonzalez pleaded nary contention to felony first-degree murder, according to the DA.