Man Gets 16 to Life for Killing Girlfriend in La Habra
SANTA ANA, Calif.—A 23-year-old man was sentenced Sept. 9 to 16 years to life in prison for fatally stabbing his girlfriend in his car in a restaurant parking lot in La Habra five years ago.
Jose Antonio Bojorquez-Romero was convicted May 17 of second-degree murder with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a deadly weapon in the killing of 19-year-old Selena Araiza of La Habra on April 28, 2017.
The victim sustained 65 “sharp force injuries” in the attack, according to Deputy District Attorney Casey Cunningham.
The defendant “violently and callously stabbed Selena in the head, neck, and chest until she was dead,” Cunningham wrote in a sentencing brief. “He committed this brutal act of violence because she broke up with him and because she had engaged in sexual relations with another man.”…