{"id":504131,"date":"2026-10-22T11:26:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504131\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T11:26:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:26:56","slug":"disrespected-man-gets-27-to-life-for-fatal-shooting-in-santa-ana-orange-county-register","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/504131\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Disrespected\u2019 man gets 27 to life for fatal shooting in Santa Ana \u2013 Orange County Register"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 25-year-old man was sentenced this week to 27 years to life in prison for<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ocregister.com\/2023\/12\/11\/22-year-old-man-suspected-in-fatal-october-shooting-in-santa-ana-arrested\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> gunning down a man in Santa Ana after a fight three years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Adrian Ayala was convicted Aug. 13 of second-degree murder for fatally shooting 26-year-old Gonzalo Carlos of Santa Ana a few minutes before midnight on Oct. 8, 2023.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAn innocent man died because the defendant felt disrespected,\u201d Deputy District Attorney Gerard Gully told jurors in his opening statement. \u201cThat\u2019s what this case is all about.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Carlos crashed the BMW he was driving in the 2300 block of West Fifth Street, about a half-mile west of Fairview Street, after he was shot, Gully said.<\/p>\n<p>The confrontation began when Carlos, who worked in construction, parked near El Salvador Park and chatted with a friend when he was approached by Ayala and another man, who were on bikes, Gully said.<\/p>\n<p>Something sparked a dispute. A brawl was broken up by a woman skateboarding by who happened to know Ayala as a former classmate.<\/p>\n<p>The two men had never met.<\/p>\n<p>A short time later, Carlos and Ayala came across each other at Fifth and Sullivan streets, Gully said.<\/p>\n<p>Video surveillance caught part of a fistfight as well as the shooting, he said. In video shown to jurors, Carlos can be seen driving away, pursued by Ayala.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos appeared to swerve to avoid the bullets but eventually was shot in the head.<\/p>\n<p>Ayala rode away on his bicycle.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos\u2019 mistake was saying something to Ayala that offended him, Gully said: \u201c(He) just disrespected the defendant in his neighborhood in front of the defendant\u2019s friend.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ayala\u2019s attorney, Fred Fascenelli, told jurors his client did open fire on Carlos but was defending himself.<\/p>\n<p>The trouble started when Ayala and his friend asked Carlos for a cigarette, Fascenelli said: \u201cHe hit him up for a smoke and the driver didn\u2019t like that and a fight ensued.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 25-year-old man was sentenced this week to 27 years to life in prison for gunning down a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":504132,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,7,1312,138,100,611,338,136],"class_list":["post-504131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-california","tag-courts","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-news","tag-orange-county","tag-santa-ana","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504131","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=504131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/504132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=504131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=504131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=504131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}