The People v. Parrasillas CA4/1

STATEMENT OF FACTS

On June 26, 2012, the victim, Johanna Gonzalez, got into an argument with

Parrasillas, with whom she was living at the time. She went upstairs to pack her things in

order to leave. Parrasillas followed her upstairs.

As the argument continued upstairs, Parrasillas told Gonzalez to "shut the fuck

up." After further words, Parrasillas struck Gonzalez in the face, knocking her to the

floor. He told her, "I don't care if you call the cops." Gonzalez called her aunt, Mirna

Suarez, to come and pick her up.

Gonzalez was waiting outside the house when Suarez arrived. After she arrived,

Suarez observed a "pinkish, purplish" bruise on Gonzalez's face. Gonzalez explained that

she and Parrasillas had been in an argument and that he had struck her.

Suarez talked with Parrasillas outside the house and asked him what had

happened. Parrasillas said, "It just happened. It was like an accident."

After Gonzalez was taken to her mother's house, police were called. A police

officer arrived and interviewed Gonzalez. He observed she was traumatized and her left

eye was swollen and had a lump the size of a golf ball.

2 Parrasillas testified in his own…