A Pomona man who shot and killed a police officer in 2018 whereas barricaded behind a door was sentenced Monday to life in jail with out the potential of parole, in response to the workplace of Superior Court docket Decide Mike Camacho.
Isaias De Jesus Valencia, 45, was discovered responsible in Might of first-degree homicide and several other counts of tried homicide, court docket information present. On prime of a life sentence, Camacho gave Valencia a separate sentence of 278 years to life.
In March 2018, two Pomona Police Division officers responded to reviews of reckless driving and pursued the car concerned for a brief distance after it failed to tug over. The car crashed right into a parked automobile close to the 1400 block of South Palomares Road, the place Valencia exited and led the officers inside an residence constructing.
Valencia barricaded himself behind the door of a unit because the officers tried to detain him. He fired six photographs, hanging Officer Gregory Casillas within the head and Officer Alex Nguyen within the cheek. Each had been rushed to the hospital, the place Casillas died after simply six months on the job, the Pomona Police Division mentioned.
“My scars run deeper than my face,” Nguyen mentioned on the sentencing listening to, in response to CBS Information. “Not a day goes by that I don’t see, really feel or take into consideration my accomplice.”
Casillas was a 30-year-old father from Upland.
The shootings led to a 15-hour standoff between Valencia and authorities, which ended when Los Angeles County sheriff’s deputies took him into custody.
Valencia has a historical past of arrests within the Pomona space, public information obtained by The Occasions present. He was despatched to state jail roughly 9 years in the past for illegally possessing a firearm and discharging a gun in a faculty zone, in addition to destruction of jail property, in response to a California Division of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokesperson. He was launched on probation round a yr later.
In response to CBS Information, Valencia refused to go to court docket for his sentencing Monday and appeared on digital camera from his jail cell.
