A thirty-year-old from San Diego, California, who allegedly increased suspicious searches on Google and took shooting lessons upon learning of his ex’s engagement was found guilty of murdering his fiancé on Monday… after trying to plead self-defense.
“His intentions were very clear,” deputy prosecutor Ramona McCarthy responded Monday to the San Diego court, local media Union-Tribune reportedly reported. New York Post.
The jury would not have believed the version of Jesse Alvarez, 33, who would have tried to convince him that he had resorted to self-defense in 2021, when he allegedly fired six bullets in the direction of Mario Fierro, her ex’s new fiancé, hitting him four times in the head, according to the American media.
Because upon learning that his former girlfriend Amy Gembara, with whom he had been in a relationship on and off between 2015 and 2019, had just gotten engaged, the accused would have signed up for shooting lessons, in addition to carrying out compromising research on Google, presented in court.
These included “how to kill your ex’s fiancé” and “in California, can you shoot someone who tries to rob you?”, according to the local media.
Except that the accused allegedly claimed that these were only “bad fantasies”, and that he did not intend to kill the fiancé when he showed up at his home, after the having monitored for an hour.
According to his version of the facts, presented to the members of the jury, he simply defended himself after the victim hit him first.
The 33-year-old man, who had not recovered from the breakup, had notably tried to find a job in the cafeteria of the Cathedral Catholic high school in California, where his ex and her fiancé worked as teachers.
The woman had tried to obtain a restraining order against her ex, which was allegedly refused after the 30-year-old promised in court to leave her alone: a promise he kept two days before trying to reconnect, according to THE NY Post.
Given the charge of first degree murder, the man could face life in prison, without the possibility of parole, for his crime.
