Miguel Angel Prieto.Photo: Los Angeles County DA
A California man will be sentenced to two life sentences after admitting to killing his estranged wife and another woman.
Miguel Angel Prieto pled guilty to one count each of first-degree murder and second-degree murder and two counts of attempted murder in the 2018 deaths of Maria Perez and Rocio Sandoval, Los Angeles County District Attorney George GascónannouncedThursday.
According to prosecutors, Prieto, 46, was involved in three different shootings in 2018 that resulted in two deaths.
The first happened in Azusa, California, on Feb. 9, 2018, when Prieto shot at a man he mistakenly thought was his estranged wife Perez’s boyfriend. The man was with Sandoval, 38, at the time.
“The man was sitting with a woman in a car when Prieto walked up to the pair, spoke to them and later shot them,” prosecutors said, according to the DA. Sandoval died from her injuries sustained in the shooting two days later, theSan Gabriel Valley Tribunereportedat the time.
Then on April 7, Prieto “visited Perez’s uncle’s restaurant in Long Beach and shot at a woman,” the DA said.
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“Prieto went to his estranged wife’s Covina home, shot her several times, then fled the area,” the DA said. Perez was pronounced dead on the scene when authorities arrived.
Prieto was arrested shortly after when police found him in a fast-food parking lot in Long Beach, theSan Gabriel Valley Tribunereported at the time.
Legal representation for Prieto could not immediately be identified.
source: people.com
