Jose Carmen Cardona pleaded guilty on Monday and was sentenced to life without parole for three counts of premeditated, deliberate and willful first-degree murder, the San Joaquin County District Attorney's Office announced. Each life sentence will be served consecutively.
Booking photo of Jose Carmen Cardona Stockton Police DepartmentIn addition, Cardona was convicted of arson of an inhabited structure with a special circumstance that the arson caused great bodily injury to more than one victim, as well as two counts of vandalism for damage to two residences.
Shortly after 6 a.m. the next morning, the Stockton Fire Department responded to a residential fire along Visalia Court near Harbor Street. After putting out the flames, firefighters entered the mobile home and found three victims inside: Gutierrez-Salazar and her sons, Julian and Juan. All three died as a result of the fire.
Cardona was arrested in Modesto the month after the fire.
District Attorney Ron Freitas said the plea ensures Cardona will spend the rest of his life in prison and provides finality for the victims' family.
"While no sentence can ever bring back this devoted mother and her children or erase the pain inflicted on their surviving family, the defendant's decision to accept responsibility provides an immediate and final resolution in this case and ensures he will face severe, permanent consequences for these heinous crimes," Freitas said in a statement. "At the request of the victims' family, we respected their wishes in reaching this conclusion."
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