SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — A former Air Drive employees sergeant linked to an extremist motion and convicted final month within the 2020 killing of a federal safety officer within the San Francisco Bay Space pleaded responsible to killing a sheriff’s sergeant per week after he attacked a federal constructing.
Steven Carrillo, 33, pleaded responsible Monday to all 9 counts, together with homicide and particular circumstances, for the killing of Santa Cruz County Sheriff Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller on June 6, 2020, the Santa Cruz District Lawyer’s Workplace confirmed Tuesday. Carrillo is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 26 and faces life in jail with out the potential for parole.
Prosecutors mentioned Carrillo ambushed sheriff’s deputies in Santa Cruz County who had been responding to a report of a van containing firearms and bomb-making supplies. Gutzwiller, 38, was killed and several other different regulation enforcement officers had been wounded.
Carrillo was arrested after he ambushed the officers in the neighborhood of Ben Lomond.
Earlier this month, Carrillo was sentenced to 41 years in jail for killing David Patrick Underwood whereas he and a colleague guarded a federal constructing in Oakland amid giant protests towards police brutality following the Might 2020 killing of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer.
In February, Carrillo admitted to posting messages on Fb a day earlier than the Oakland taking pictures asking anybody in the event that they had been “all the way down to boog” and saying he was able to act and never simply discuss. He additionally admitted firing 19 rounds from a selfmade AR-15 rifle from the again of a white van being pushed by a person he related with on-line.
“I aligned myself with the anti-government motion and wished to hold out violent acts towards federal regulation enforcement officers specifically,” Carrillo mentioned then.
Prosecutors mentioned Carrillo, of Santa Cruz, had ties to the “boogaloo” motion — an idea embraced by a free community of gun lovers and militia-style extremists. Specialists say the group began in alt-right tradition on the web with the assumption that there’s an impending U.S. civil warfare.
