{"id":2024254,"date":"2023-09-07T04:15:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T08:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-pleads-guilty-to-murdering-girlfriend-the-mother-of-his-children-in-south-los-angeles\/"},"modified":"2023-09-07T04:15:45","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T08:15:45","slug":"man-pleads-guilty-to-murdering-girlfriend-the-mother-of-his-children-in-south-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-pleads-guilty-to-murdering-girlfriend-the-mother-of-his-children-in-south-los-angeles\/","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-los-angeles%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=2024254&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 Murdering Longtime \u2062Girlfriend<\/h2>\n<p>COMPTON, Calif.\u2014A 38-year-old man has \u200bpleaded guilty\u200b to \u200cmurdering his\u200d <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>, \u200bwith whom he \u2063shared two children.<\/p>\n<p>Richard Lara was immediately sentenced\u2062 to 26 years to life in state prison following his plea on \u200bSept. 5 to first-degree murder, according to the Los \u200bAngeles County District \u200dAttorney&#8217;s \u200dOffice.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Lara \u200badmitted that he personally used a knife \u200cduring \u2064the commission\u200b of the crime on Feb. \u200d4.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/la-man-who-went-on-crime-spree-with-bb-gun-pleads-guilty-5487291\">LA Man Who Went on\u2064 Crime Spree With BB Gun Pleads Guilty<\/a> &#8211; \u200d9\/6\/2023<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/over-140-lapd-officers-take-legal-action-over-reckless-photo-releases-5487233\">Over 140 LAPD Officers Take Legal Action\u2062 Over &#8216;Reckless&#8217; Photo Releases<\/a> &#8211; 9\/6\/2023<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Lara \u2063and his girlfriend\u2014identified by family members as Nicole\u200d Santillanes\u2014left their \u2063apartment in \u200dthe 9800 block of South \u2064Broadway that evening and walked to \u2062a neighborhood\u2062 store, according to a statement released by the Los Angeles \u2064Police Department \u200bshortly after the woman&#8217;s killing.<\/p>\n<p>When they finished shopping, \u200dthe\u2064 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-pleads-guilty-to-murdering-girlfriend-the-mother-of-his-children-in-south-los-angeles\/\" title=\"Man admits to killing girlfriend, mother of his kids, in South LA.\">victim returned \u2064home<\/a> first,\u2063 and when Mr. Lara returned, &#8220;a dispute between\u200c the two turned\u200c into a\u2062 physical altercation \u2064which led \u200cto \u200cthe victim&#8217;s murder,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p>The two had been \u200btogether for\u2064 about\u200d 13 years and were living with their\u2062 two children, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Lara fled before\u2064 police arrived, and he was arrested on Feb. 8 by members of the \u200c<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 said.<\/p>\n<p>Family members said Ms. Santillanes was a mother\u200c of \u2062four children, ages 7, 8, 13, and\u200c 20 at the time.<\/p>\n<p>According to a \u200bGoFundMe page, Ms. \u200bSantillanes worked as\u200d a\u200d nursing\u2063 assistant &#8220;to provide for \u2064her children.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our Nicole was a beautiful woman \u200cwho went above and beyond to give her \u2062children a better life,&#8221;\u2062 according to the GoFundMe\u2064 page, which has raised more than $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":2024255,"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-2024254","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\/2024254","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=2024254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2024254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2024255"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2024254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2024254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2024254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}