A man who pleaded guilty to a series of Southern California robberies and attacks that killed five men and injured seven others has been given multiple life sentences.
FILE - Ramon Alberto Escobar, with an unidentified attorney, appears at a hearing in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Sept. 26, 2018. Escobar who pleaded guilty to a series of Southern California attacks that killed five men and injured seven others was sentenced Friday, May 6, 2022, to life in prison without possibility of parole. Ramon Escobar, 50, received multiple life sentences after entering guilty pleas to murder with special circumstances and attempted murder.
Prosecutors said Escobar fled Texas after killing his relatives and was homeless when he began attacking people in Los Angeles and Santa Monica over the course of about two weeks in September 2018. In an interview with police, Escobar said he killed some of the victims because they “irritated him, they were disrespectful to law enforcement, or he robbed them because he needed money,” according to a prosecution sentencing memorandum.Surveillance video showed him ransacking the pockets and belongings of some victims in downtown Los Angeles.
Houston police later said Escobar confessed that he had killed siblings Dina Escobar, 60, and Rogelio Escober, 65.
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