XPost: alt.politics.democrats, oc.general, sac.politics
XPost: talk.politics.guns
On 18 Nov 2023, Owning The MAGAs <
[email protected]> posted some news:uja664$39o6r$
[email protected]:
She went drinking at two bars right after work on the way to her car.
What did she think was going to happen?
An Orange County bartender accused of bludgeoning a woman to death with a
fire extinguisher pleaded not guilty to all the charges against him
Monday.
Dino Rojas-Moreno, 26, was arrested Wednesday in Laguna Hills and charged
with one count of murder with two felony enhancements: that the killing
was committed in commission of a kidnapping and that it was carried out
with a personal weapon, a fire extinguisher.
Those enhancements would potentially make him subject to the death
penalty, according to authorities.
�The loss of an innocent life is a travesty for the entire community,�
Orange County Dist. Atty. Todd Spitzer said in a statement.
A call to Rojas-Moreno�s attorney was not immediately returned Monday. Rojas-Moreno is due back in court for a pretrial hearing on Jan. 30. Prosecutors allege that Rojas-Moreno, who lives in Laguna Hills, assaulted 27-year-old San Clemente resident Tatum Goodwin around 1 a.m. on Nov. 12
in a parking lot near Carmelita�s restaurant in Laguna Beach.
Goodwin had worked at Carmelita�s for four years, rising to the position
of assistant manager, according to a GoFundMe campaign set up by the restaurant's owner.
Rojas-Moreno, prosecutors allege, dragged Goodwin to the rear of the
parking lot and down an alleyway to a secluded area. There, he is accused
of beating her to death with a fire extinguisher, according to the
district attorney�s office.
About 8:20 a.m., a construction worker found Goodwin�s body under a chain-
link fence at a nearby work site with a sandbag placed on her head,
authorities say.
�It is heartbreaking that a young woman with her entire future ahead of
her had her life ended in such a brutal way and then discarded like her
life never [mattered],� Spitzer said.
It is unknown whether there was a prior relationship between the two.
Though some news outlets reported that Rojas-Moreno had worked as a
bartender for Goodwin at Carmelita�s, that is incorrect, according to
Kimberly Edds, a spokeswoman for the district attorney�s office.
Rojas-Moreno called in sick to work the day Goodwin's body was found,
saying he had been jumped in Santa Ana, according to the district
attorney�s office.
He is being held without bail.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/orange-county-bartender-pleads-not- guilty-to-beating-woman-to-death-with-fire-extinguisher/ar-AA1kghn5
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)