On Wednesday, a judge sentenced 33-year-old Raul Gastellum Flores to life in prison for four murders in what prosecutors describe as a drug cartel-related takeover.
The man from Phoenix drove to Orange County with a cache of handguns, AK-47s and orders to steal tens of thousands of dollars from two men who wronged his employer. In his wake, the man left behind four dead men, three of whom were shot multiple times and left inside a burning SUV in a residential neighborhood near Chapman University. One of the victims was also stabbed numerous times. The men were believed to have been killed Nov. 9, 2015.
After all three men were killed, Flores' accomplices got out of the vehicle and he continued to drive toward a residential neighborhood in Orange, according to prosecutors. He stopped on Oakmont Street where he set the SUV on fire while he was still behind the wheel, officials said. Flores jumped out of the moving vehicle and into a waiting sedan, court records show. A surveillance video captured the burning SUV as it rolled down the street and Flores jumped out. Just after 2 p.m.
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