Man Who Killed Ex’s Daughters in San Diego County Sentenced to Life in Prison
EL CAJON, Calif.—A man who shot and killed his ex-girlfriend’s twin 15-year-old daughters in Lemon Grove was sentenced April 7 to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
Dwayne Edward Groves Jr., 41, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and other charges for fatally shooting Caira Rachel Christopher and Leah Sylvania Christopher on April 15, 2020, at their Central Avenue home.
Groves’s life without parole sentence includes an additional 72 years to life in state prison.
At his arraignment in early 2020, Deputy District Attorney Meredith Pro alleged that shortly before Groves arrived at the home, he called his former girlfriend, Joann Hoyt, and told her “he had figured it all out and had a plan.”…