People v. Reyes CA4/3

FACTS

In 2008, Ana Garcia was living with Jose Cedano at her parents’ house in Ontario. However, after Garcia met appellant in the summer of that year, she broke off her relationship with Cedano, and appellant moved in with her and her family. Appellant was very controlling and jealous of Garcia. In September 2008, he told a coworker he wanted to marry Garcia and would kill her if she ever tried to leave him. But Garcia was not in love with appellant. In fact, not long after they began living together, she told him she wanted to break up and get back together with Cedano. Upon hearing this, appellant said he was going to send someone to kill Cedano. On October 7, 2008, Garcia was at her parents’ house packing up her belongings. She had borrowed her brother-in-law’s pickup truck and was planning on moving in with her sister. But while she was packing, appellant entered the house and fatally struck her in the head with a heavy iron object. He then wrapped her body in blankets, put it in the bed of the pickup truck and drove off in the truck. After stopping at a gas station to fuel up and withdraw money from Garcia’s bank account, appellant rented a storage unit in Inglewood and…