DATE:\u00a0July 10, 2026<\/p>\n
CASE:\u00a0Guadalupe Valencia\u00a0(Case #25FE023166)<\/p>\n
PROSECUTOR:\u00a0Deputy District Attorney Cody Winchester, Homicide Unit<\/p>\n
The Honorable Kenneth Brody sentenced Guadalupe Valencia to 40 years to life in prison. On February 25, 2026, Valencia was convicted by a jury of second-degree murder and felon in possession of a firearm. The jury also found true the allegation that Valencia personally discharged a firearm causing death.<\/p>\n
On November 21, 2025, Valencia and the victim, Steve Guy, had a verbal altercation at the Stop-N-Save Mart in Del Paso Heights. \u00a0Shortly after the altercation, the victim left the store and walked down the road away from Valencia.\u00a0 Valencia remained in the store and called his wife to bring him a gun. \u00a0Valencia then got into a car with the gun and followed the victim. When he caught up to the victim, Valencia challenged him to a gun fight. \u00a0When the victim produced his own firearm, Valencia opened fire, striking the victim in the back. The victim was killed from a single gunshot to the torso. \u00a0After the shooting, Valencia fled Sacramento. When local news stations reported that the victim had succumbed to his injuries, Valencia fled to Olivehurst. Law enforcement was able to locate and arrest Valencia the next day.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DATE:\u00a0July 10, 2026 CASE:\u00a0Guadalupe Valencia\u00a0(Case #25FE023166) PROSECUTOR:\u00a0Deputy District Attorney Cody Winchester, Homicide Unit The Honorable Kenneth Brody sentenced…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":12344,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[121,123,122],"class_list":["post-394394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sacramento","tag-sacramento","tag-sacramento-headlines","tag-sacramento-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394394","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=394394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}