A jury has reached a verdict in the retrial of former UC Davis student Carlos Reales Dominguez, who is accused of carrying out a series of fatal stabbings in the city in the spring of 2023.
The verdict has not yet been announced. Jurors notified the court that they had reached a decision after deliberating in Yolo County Superior Court in Woodland, the court confirmed Tuesday afternoon.
Dominguez, 24, is charged with two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder stemming from a weeklong series of attacks in late April and early May 2023.
The retrial follows a 2025 mistrial after jurors found Dominguez not guilty of first-degree murder but were unable to reach a unanimous verdict on second-degree murder charges.
The first victim, David Breaux — known throughout Davis as the "Compassion Guy" — was found stabbed to death while sleeping on a bench in Central Park. Two days later, UC Davis senior Karim Abou Najm was fatally stabbed more than 50 times while riding his bicycle through Sycamore Park.
The third victim, Kimberlee Guillory, survived after she was stabbed while sleeping in a tent at a homeless encampment in Davis.
Unlike the first trial, prosecutors in the retrial acknowledged that Dominguez was suffering from schizophrenia at the time of the attacks. However, they argued his actions were intentional and alleged that heavy marijuana use triggered a cannabis-induced psychosis that exacerbated his mental illness.
Deputy District Attorney Matt DeMoura told jurors the attacks were deliberate, arguing that even while experiencing psychosis, Dominguez intended to kill his victims.
The defense did not dispute that Dominguez carried out the stabbings but maintained he was legally insane at the time because of severe, undiagnosed schizophrenia.
Public defender Daniel Hutchinson argued Dominguez's mental illness had progressively worsened in the weeks leading up to the attacks and that he was experiencing his first psychotic break. The defense rejected the prosecution's theory that cannabis-induced psychosis was responsible, instead pointing to testimony from mental health experts who diagnosed Dominguez with schizophrenia.
The retrial centered on Dominguez's mental state and whether he could be held criminally responsible for the attacks.
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