The Pittsburg man obtained 30 years of life for killing women in Bay Point

Martinez – A Pittsburg man was sentenced to 30 years of life for stabbing his partner and letting her die on a Bay Point road, as shown by the judicial records.

Richard Ortiz Jr., 50, was sentenced after being convicted of murdering Anneliese Ponce, 44, in a stabbing of October 2, 2021. The sentence was ended last November, but has not been previously reported.

Prosecutors say Ortiz stabbed Ponce in Island View Drive during a domestic dispute, then escaped and tried to climb a fence when the agents arrived. He was arrested and has been behind bars since then, according to judicial records. The murder followed at least two other domestic violence disputes, one from the previous , judicial records, judicial records. show.

Ortiz was sentenced last year. Prosecutors argued for 44 years of life imprisonment, that Ortiz’s lawyer said in judicial presentations would have been as drastic as a term of life without probation, given his age.

In the judicial documents, Ortiz’s lawyer, the public defender vice president Julian Ross, described Ortiz as the product of a “model of evil roles” that, however, is described by his daughter as “the most supportive, affectionate father and loving. “

“While he is imprisoned, Mr. Ortiz has focused his time on his spirituality and personal improvement,” Ross wrote on a motion from the Court.

Except, prosecutors countered, for a particular day, when Ortiz supposedly created a metal fences rod in the county prison, which led another inmate to say that Ortiz “would drink and begin” to act as even stabbed The people “, prosecutors”, “”, “”, “” “. While threatening to shoot a bar in 2016.

Ortiz was first sent to the prison in the early 20s, and is now imprisoned in the prison of substance abuse treatment in Corcoran, according to the records.