A 42-year-old Anaheim man was charged Friday with killing his girlfriend.<\/p>\n
Oscar Velasquez, who will turn 43 Aug. 31, was charged with murder and possession of a gun by a felon and theft of a car with a prior conviction, all felonies. He also faces a sentencing enhancement for using a knife in the killing.<\/p>\n
Velasquez was accused of killing 38-year-old Jasmine Miranda of Anaheim, according to Anaheim Police Department Sgt. Eric Anderson.<\/p>\n
Police were called about 12:50 p.m. Tuesday to the Kona Motel at 331 N. Broookhurst St., near the Dad Miller Golf Course, for a check on Miranda, Anderson said. Miranda was pronounced dead at the motel, he added.<\/p>\n
Police tracked down Velasquez on Wednesday in Santa Ana and he was booked on suspicion of murder, Anderson said.<\/p>\n
Velasquez was accused of stealing a Nissan Versa.<\/p>\n
Velasquez pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four years in prison in September 2021 to a felony count and a misdemeanor count of assault with a deadly weapon as well as felony counts of hit-and-run with injury and car theft with a prior conviction. He also admitted a sentencing enhancement for inflicting great bodily injury on a victim he struck with a GMC Sierra, according to court records.<\/p>\n
Velasquez refused to be transported to court Friday, so his arraignment was rescheduled for Monday in the North Justice Center in Fullerton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 42-year-old Anaheim man was charged Friday with killing his girlfriend. Oscar Velasquez, who will turn 43 Aug.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,10753,48397,5686],"class_list":["post-440180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-charged","tag-girlfriend","tag-killing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440180","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=440180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440180\/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=440180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}