{"id":2023749,"date":"2023-09-06T17:35:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T21:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-pleads-guilty-to-murdering-girlfriend-the-mother-of-his-children-in-south-la\/"},"modified":"2023-09-06T17:35:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T21:35:32","slug":"man-pleads-guilty-to-murdering-girlfriend-the-mother-of-his-children-in-south-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-pleads-guilty-to-murdering-girlfriend-the-mother-of-his-children-in-south-la\/","title":{"rendered":"Man admits to killing girlfriend, mother of his kids, in South LA."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fman-pleads-guilty-to-murdering-girlfriend-the-mother-of-his-children-in-south-la%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2023749&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Man Pleads Guilty to \u2064Murdering \u200bLongtime Girlfriend<\/h2>\n<p>COMPTON, Calif.\u2014A\u2063 38-year-old man has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/breaking-president-trump-to-pardon-gen-michael-flynn-per-report\/\" title=\"BREAKING: President Trump to Pardon Gen. Michael Flynn, Per Report\">pleaded guilty<\/a> to murdering his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mom-of-late-capitol-police-officer-brian-sicknick-pushing-gop-to-back-jan-6-panel\/\" title=\"Mom of Late Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick Pushing GOP to Back Jan. 6 Panel\">longtime girlfriend<\/a>, with\u200b whom he shared two children.<\/p>\n<p>Richard \u200bLara \u200cwas immediately sentenced to 26 years to life in state prison following his \u2062plea \u2062on Sept. 5 to first-degree \u200dmurder, \u2063according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. \u2064Lara admitted that he personally used a knife during the commission of the crime \u200don Feb. 4.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/la-man-who-went-on-crime-spree-with-bb-gun-pleads-guilty-5487291\">LA \u2062Man Who Went on Crime Spree With \u2064BB Gun Pleads Guilty<\/a><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n      <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">9\/6\/2023<\/span>\n    <\/li>\n<li>\n      <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/over-140-lapd-officers-take-legal-action-over-reckless-photo-releases-5487233\">Over 140 LAPD \u200bOfficers Take Legal Action Over\u2063 &#8220;Reckless&#8221; Photo\u2062 Releases<\/a><br \/>\n      <br \/>\n      <span class=\"text-comp-caption\">9\/6\/2023<\/span>\n    <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. \u2063Lara and his \u200cgirlfriend\u2014identified \u2064by family members\u2063 as Nicole Santillanes\u2014left their apartment in the 9800 block of South Broadway\u2063 that evening and walked to\u2064 a neighborhood store, according to \u2062a statement released by the Los Angeles Police Department shortly after the \u200bwoman&#8217;s killing.<\/p>\n<p>When \u200cthey finished\u200c shopping, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-pleads-guilty-to-murdering-girlfriend-the-mother-of-his-children-in-south-la\/\" title=\"Man admits to killing girlfriend, mother of his kids, in South LA.\">victim returned home<\/a> first,\u200c and when Mr. Lara returned, &#8220;a dispute between the two turned into a physical altercation which led \u200bto the victim&#8217;s murder,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p>The \u2063two\u200c had been together for about 13 years and were \u200dliving with their two children, \u2063according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Mr.\u200c Lara \u200cfled before police arrived, and he was \u2064arrested \u2063on Feb. 8 by members of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/new-dc-gun-dealer-sees-business-boom-after-overcoming-city-roadblocks\/\" title=\"New DC Gun Dealer Sees Business Boom After Overcoming City Roadblocks\u00a0\">police department&#8217;<\/a>s Gang and Narcotics Division, police \u200dsaid.<\/p>\n<p>Family members said\u200d Ms. Santillanes was a mother of four children, ages 7, 8,\u200d 13, and 20 at\u200c the time.<\/p>\n<p>According to a\u2064 GoFundMe page,\u2062 Ms. Santillanes worked as a nursing assistant\u200b &#8220;to provide for her children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our Nicole was\u200d a\u2062 beautiful woman who went above and beyond to give her children a better\u200c life,&#8221; according\u200c to \u200dthe GoFundMe page, which has raised \u200bmore \u2064than $14,400.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>weapon to kill his girlfriend, whose name has not been released. The motive for the murder remains unclear. The couple had two children together. Lara&#8217;s guilty plea resulted in a sentence of 26 years to life in state prison. The case was handled by the Los Angeles County District Attorney&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":2023750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2023749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}