San Francisco: brothers convicted in stabbing death

SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) — Two brothers have been convicted within the 2014 stabbing dying of 20-year-old Ronnie Goodman, Jr., within the Mission District.

A jury convicted Luis Gutierrez of first-degree homicide and torture within the killing of Goodman, who was stabbed 39 instances on Sept. 9, 2014.

Luis’s brother Javier Gutierrez, pled individually to involuntary manslaughter and assault with a lethal weapon earlier than the trial started and was sentenced Thursday to eight years in state jail.

The homicide occurred on the nook of twenty fourth and Capp streets within the Mission at about 11:49 p.m., in accordance with a information launch from the workplace of San Francisco District Legal professional Chesa Boudin.

“This was a surprising and devastating crime that took the lifetime of a younger man in a brutal method,” Boudin mentioned in a press release. “The case had stalled for a few years earlier than my administration and I’m happy with our hardworking workers, together with Assistant District Legal professional Sean Connolly, for lastly bringing this case to closure and reaching accountability for the sufferer and his household. Nothing can deliver the sufferer again, however we hope this verdict gives some small consolation.”

The stabbing adopted a bodily altercation Luis Gutierrez was purportedly concerned in with a number of younger males upon exiting a Muni bus, prosecutors mentioned.

Luis, then 21 years outdated, rushed house and advised his older brother, Javier, then 26, in regards to the incident. The brothers armed themselves with a knife and a taser and located Goodman later that very same night.

Javier tackled Goodman after which shot him with a taser, prosecutors mentioned. Whereas Goodman was nonetheless on the bottom, prosecutors mentioned, Luis stabbed him 39 instances in his chest, neck, face and eyes.

Goodman died later at San Francisco Common Hospital. The brothers have been arrested Oct. 19, 2014, six weeks after the homicide, and pleaded not responsible in court docket the next week.

The brothers and Goodman had been concerned within the Mission District’s city artwork scene, in accordance with Bay Metropolis Information accounts on the time. The information launch didn’t present any details about why the case had stalled.

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