A Willits man was convicted this week of murdering a person and his 17-year-old son at a marijuana cultivation website on Sherwood Street, the Mendocino County District Lawyer’s Workplace reported.
In line with the workplace of DA David Eyster, Christopher W. Gamble, 48, of Willits, was discovered responsible in Mendocino County Superior Courtroom Monday of two counts of homicide within the deaths of Ulises Andrade Ayala, age not offered, and of his 17-year-old son, Anwar Ayala Rodriguez.
In line with press releases from the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Workplace, the our bodies of two individuals have been discovered within the 20000 block of Timber Street in late April of 2021. Investigators quickly arrested Gamble in reference to their deaths, which have been later decided to have occurred at a cultivation website on Sherwood Street on April 26.
Along with the homicides, Gamble was additionally charged with animal abuse of roosters. In line with courtroom paperwork, Gamble “willfully, unlawfully, maliciously and deliberately (did) maim, mutilate, torture, or wound dwelling animal, to wit, rooster(s).”
On Might 8 after a two-week trial, a jury discovered Gamble responsible of homicide within the first diploma of Rodriguez, the teenager, and responsible of homicide within the second-degree of Ayala, his father.
Gamble was additionally convicted of the animal abuse, which the DA’s workplace describes as “a felony cost regarding quite a lot of roosters discovered by legislation enforcement in a burn pile, together with the headless our bodies of the 2 human victims.”
Eyster’s workplace additionally notes that “the severed heads of the 2 human victims have been by no means situated by legislation enforcement.”
The DA’s workplace notes that “the legislation enforcement businesses that developed the proof supporting Monday’s jury verdicts and findings have been the Mendocino County Sheriff’s Workplace, the Mendocino Main Crimes Job Drive, the Division of Justice crime laboratory, and the District Lawyer’s personal Bureau of Investigation.
“Particular thanks are additionally prolonged to Division of Anthropology at Chico State for his or her forensic help within the investigation, in addition to to the Ukiah Valley Hearth Authority for his or her help.”