Man Convicted Of Murder, Attempted Murder In May 2021 Shooting, Crash In West Sacramento

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WEST SACRAMENTO (CBS13) — A assemblage this week recovered a antheral blameworthy of second-degree execution for the May 2021 sidesplitting of 23-year-old Brenda Jimenez successful West Sacramento and the attempted execution of 26-year-old Kenneth Robinson Jr., prosecutors announced Thursday.

Jose Tellez Flores, 20, faces up to 24 years down bars for some crimes and is scheduled to beryllium sentenced connected March 1.

West Sacramento constabulary accidental responded to study of shots fired successful the country of 6th Street and Cummins Way during the aboriginal greeting hours of May 6. Officers discovered 2 abstracted scenes of car crashes, including 1 wherever a conveyance deed a house.

According to the Yolo County District Attorney’s Office, Jimenez was located successful the operator sear of a Chevy Impala which crashed into the store doorway of a home. She had been changeable aggregate times, including a fatal gunshot coiled to that penetrated the heart.

Jimenez — a woman and parent — died astatine the scene.

Robinson was successful the rider spot and had a gunshot coiled to the back. He was rushed to UC Davis Medical Center and survived the shooting.

Back astatine the scene, officers besides located a Chevy Tahoe that had crashed successful the aforesaid area, prosecutors said. This Tahoe was aboriginal recovered to beryllium associated with Tellez Flores, who was arrested hours aboriginal and has been successful custody since.

“The mode that this sidesplitting was perpetrated not lone endangered the lives of those involved, but wholly disregarded the information and payment of the full West Sacramento Community,” Yolo County District Attorney Jeff Reisig said. “The magnitude of trauma caused by Mr. Tellez Flores and his associates cannot genuinely beryllium measured, but it is comforting to cognize that members of the assemblage heard the grounds and handed down justness successful this case.”

Investigators utilized adjacent postulation cameras, surveillance video and GPS information to observe Tellez Flores’ movements that night. According to prosecutors, Tellez Flores was with 2 others, including his member Felipe Tellez, celebrating Cinco de Mayo astatine a South Sacramento restaurant. The trio traveled to West Sacramento and pulled up adjacent to the Impala Jimenez and Robinson were successful the country of Cummins Way and Douglas Street.

Moments later, the Impala sped distant with the Tahoe pursuing. Prosecutors said video captured gunshot flashes coming from the Tahoe soon earlier the Impala mislaid traction and crashed.

Video captured the 3 suspects fleeing the area. At astir 2:30 a.m., Tellez Flores’ begetter gave the 2 brothers a thrust location to South Sacramento from a West Sacramento flat complex.

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Tellez Flores was linked to a handgun seized during a postulation halt by Sacramento police. That weapon was determined to beryllium 1 of astatine slightest 3 utilized during the West Sacramento shooting, prosecutors said.