A 32-year-old felon was convicted Wednesday of fatally shooting a man outside a liquor store in Santa Ana.<\/p>\n
Manuel Chairez-Campos was convicted of first-degree murder with a sentencing enhancement for the firing of a gun causing death and a count of possession of a gun by a felon. Chairez-Campos was convicted of killing 29-year-old Jorge Velasquez of Santa Ana Aug. 13, 2023.<\/p>\n
Jurors reached the verdicts in less than 30 minutes.<\/p>\n
The shooting occurred about 1:50 a.m. outside of Adolfo\u2019s liquor store at 2734 N. Bristol St.<\/p>\n
Surveillance video from the store captured the gun-wielding defendant wearing a ski mask charging at the victim, according to a trial brief from Deputy District Attorney Ray Gennawey.<\/p>\n
The prosecutor said Chairez-Campos pumped multiple rounds into the unarmed victim\u2019s body before making a move to flee and then returning to shoot him one more time in the head, Gennawey said.<\/p>\n
The defendant got into some sort of argument with Velasquez, who was sitting on a stool outside of the store, before the deadly conflict.<\/p>\n
Nearly an hour and a half later, Chairez-Campos returned to the liquor store with a few friends, Gennawey said. One of the defendant\u2019s friends had a conversation with Velasquez that erupted into a brawl before the defendant charged at the victim and opened fire, the prosecutor said.<\/p>\n
Investigators linked Chairez-Campos to the shooting through graffiti evidence and a statement from one of Velasquez\u2019s friends, who told him members of a rival gang were shooting at him, Gennawey said.<\/p>\n
Chairez-Campos led police on a high-speed chase in Moreno Valley as they attempted to arrest him in connection with the shooting, Gennawey said. The defendant pleaded guilty to attempted murder in June 2010 and admitted a sentencing enhancement for gang activity for a shooting on Oct. 24, 2008, according to court records.<\/p>\n
Chairez-Campos was paroled in March 2022 for the attempted murder. In June of 2023 he was arrested for possession of a gun by a felon and was out on bail at the time of the killing.<\/p>\n
Chairez-Campos is scheduled to be sentenced April 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 32-year-old felon was convicted Wednesday of fatally shooting a man outside a liquor store in Santa Ana.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,5685,1491,53924,21777,135],"class_list":["post-144029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-convicted","tag-fatal","tag-felon","tag-santa","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144029","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=144029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}