Parramartinez

BACKGROUND

Defendant’s girlfriend broke up with him. Around 1:00 or 2:00 o’clock the next

morning, defendant came to the apartment where the girlfriend lived with her father and

demanded to pick up some of his belongings stored in the garage. He was furious to find

the lock on the garage had been changed. The father went down to the garage to give

defendant access to the storage. While there, defendant pulled out a gun and held it to

the father’s throat. He said he was going to kill the father and father’s entire family. The

father never actually saw the gun.

When the father returned to the apartment, he could hear defendant outside the

door. He called the police. Defendant left before the police arrived, and the father gave a

statement to the responding officers.

Later that day, after making calls to the girlfriend asking her to “remove” the

police report, defendant convinced her to meet with him. At the meeting, the girlfriend

complied with defendant’s directions to get in his car, and he drove away with her.

While driving, he made repeated calls to the father on the girlfriend’s phone, telling him

he would kill the girlfriend if the father did not withdraw the…