Utilizing a semi-automatic firearm with an prolonged journal, he allegedly shot a 27-year-old man 25 instances, yielding a dozen wounds to the sufferer’s head, with different bullets riddling his neck, torso, a hand, and decrease extremities.
However one of many wounds may have been brought on by “blunt pressure harm,” suggesting a pistol-whipping, with the violence occurring at a Feb. 4, 2013, Tremendous Bowl occasion in a Vallejo residence.
These particulars have been among the many testimony and proof aired Friday in the course of the second day of a Solano County Superior Court docket preliminary listening to for a 41-year-old Vallejo man accused of the killing and who later fled to Peru however was ultimately extradited to the USA 4 years in the past.
Shackled on the waist and legs, clad in a striped jail jumpsuit, William Bruce Cordoba sat on the protection desk in Division 23 whereas forensic pathologist Dr. Arnold Josselson, on the witness stand, provided his opinion on the post-mortem carried out Feb. 5, 2013, on Jimmie Richardson.
A twice-convicted felon, Cordoba is charged with Richardson’s killing, which occurred within the pre-dawn hours close to Borges Lane and Evelyn Circle, the place Vallejo law enforcement officials discovered Richardson useless from a number of gunshot wounds.
Apart from first-degree homicide, Cordoba is charged with mayhem and assault with a semi-automatic firearm.
In the course of the morning continuing, Deputy District Lawyer William Ainsworth confirmed Josselson a number of post-mortem photographs. The physician, rendering an opinion on the post-mortem carried out by Dr. Susan Hogan, stated blood on Richardson’s head was so plentiful that it obscured among the head wounds, and never all of them have been deadly.
Infrequently, Choose John B. Ellis, who's presiding over the case, leaned over from his bench seat to get a greater view of the the photographs.
Considered one of Cordoba’s protection attorneys, Geoffrey Carr of Redwood Metropolis, cross-examined Josselson, noting that the physician reviewed the report in 2020, seven years after the post-mortem, and described forensic pathology as “one thing we name science,” or details, not an opinion.
Afterward, Ainsworth known as retired Vallejo police detective Sean Kenney to the stand, who stated he found, after the capturing report, a burning Nissan Altima on Farragut Avenue in Vallejo, not removed from the Napa River It was unclear if Cordoba set the hearth.
However Kenney stated the violence stemmed from an argument throughout a Tremendous Bowl gathering in a Vallejo residence, with Cordoba reportedly telling somebody that Richardson “has to go tonight,” that means he needed to be killed.
The handgun used within the deadly capturing, in accordance with witness testimony on Thursday, the primary day of the listening to, was discovered underwater by divers off a pier in Crockett.
In her cross-examination of Kenney, co-defense counsel Could Mar, additionally of Redwood Metropolis, continued to press Kenney aggressively with questions on details of the case based mostly on his reviews.
Because the testimony continued previous midday, Ellis stopped the continuing and ordered Cordoba and the attorneys to return at 1:30 p.m. Thursday to finish the listening to within the Justice Middle in Fairfield.
As beforehand reported, the Solano County District Lawyer filed its grievance in opposition to Cordoba on April 2, 2013, and an arrest warrant was issued the following day.
In some unspecified time in the future, Cordoba fled the USA and settled in Peru, however he couldn't keep out of bother.
Also called William Johnson, he was arrested March 21, 2014, in Lima, Peru’s capital, the place he confronted native fees in an unrelated case.
A U.S. citizen, Cordoba was extradited to the U.S. on April 5, 2019, arrested at Sacramento Airport on the warrant, and booked into Solano County Jail. He stays on the Stanton Correctional Facility in Fairfield with out bail.
If convicted of first-degree homicide at trial, Cordoba faces 25 years to life in state jail and certain extra time for the opposite fees and for fleeing the nation.