{"id":10678,"date":"2025-10-18T01:25:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:25:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/10678\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T01:25:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:25:19","slug":"jury-finds-andrew-leon-guilty-of-first-degree-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/10678\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury finds Andrew Leon guilty of first-degree murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRENSO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A jury has found Andrew Leon guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of his former girlfriend&#8217;s mother.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Leon had little reaction as the verdict was read and no family or friends were in the courtroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Jury deliberations lasted for less than a day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The judge will sentence Leon on January 21, he faces up to life in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In November of 2023, Huron police found 37-year-old April Diaz with gunshot wounds on a Huron road. She died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The then 19-year-old Leon later turned himself in to authorities in Monterey County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Leon said he had gone to Diaz&#8217;s home in Huron looking to speak with her daughter but Diaz refused to let him inside.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">That&#8217;s when he opened fire, hitting Diaz 11 times, until his gun jammed.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FRENSO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; A jury has found Andrew Leon guilty of first-degree murder in the killing of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9250,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[10066,10058,10059,7,512,10064,10065,6295,112,114,113,10063,10060,10061,10062,2897,294],"class_list":["post-10678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fresno","tag-10066","tag-andrew-leon","tag-april-diaz","tag-california","tag-central-valley","tag-courtroom","tag-crime-news","tag-first-degree-murder","tag-fresno","tag-fresno-headlines","tag-fresno-news","tag-gunshot-wounds","tag-huron","tag-jury-verdict","tag-life-in-prison","tag-sentencing","tag-timely"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}