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Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Yahoo
Opening statements read in former UC Davis student stabbing trial
( — The 10-week trial for former UC Davis student Carlos Reales Dominguez, who allegedly stabbed and killed two men and gravely injured one woman, began on Monday, May 5th. The 2023 stabbings rocked the City of Davis, an otherwise peaceful college town. Dominguez is being charged with murder, attempted murder, and unlawful use of a deadly weapon. The trial finally began after Dominguez was formerly found to be mentally unfit to stand trial and sent to Atascadero State Hospital for treatment. He has since been deemed competent for trial. Dominguez is being charged with murder, attempted murder, and unlawful use of a deadly weapon. The opening statements revealed several new and important details to the 18-member jury. The prosecution says the first victim, David Breaux, was stabbed 31 times, and a new leather knife sheath located near his body. Breaux was found sitting upright on a bench, but the prosecution says most of Breaux's stab wounds were on his back, which is inconsistent with that position. We also learned the second victim, UC Davis student Karim Abou Najm, was stabbed 52 times, mostly in the vital portions of the body. Photographs revealed several stab wounds around his heart. The prosecution also said a nearby doctor heard the victim screaming, ran out to help, and saw the defendant ride away on Najm's bike. The third victim, Kimberlee Guillory, an unhoused woman, was allegedly stabbed twice through her tent. The prosecution also alleges the suspect was caught after a resident reported him to law enforcement. When officials allegedly closed in on him, they asked to see his hands and found a bloody knife in his backpack. The prosecutors also detail how they believe Dominguez purchased the deadly weapon. 'He searches on Amazon on his account for a combat knife, hunting knife, and a combat knife, and he makes a selection of a double-edged dagger that he purchases.' The defense claims the El Salvador-born former honor student and athlete began to have symptoms of schizophrenia after his first year at UC Davis. His attorney said he believed he was being directed by supernatural beings. The defense told the court that his ex-girlfriend allegedly claimed he became withdrawn, and told friends he was hearing voices, and co-workers say he stopped showing up to his job. 'What is not in dispute is that Dominguez did the physical act that caused the deaths of David Breaux, Kareem Abu Najam and injured Kimberly Gilbert,' the defense attorney says. 'The question that will be presented to you is, what was Carlos Reales Dominguez's specific intent and mental state when he did those physical acts, and what was happening in his mind? The evidence will show that it was a mind that had been devastated by severe and debilitating mental disease.' While in the hospital, he was forced to take medication. The defense attorney says Dominguez's symptoms are less pronounced but still present. Several witnesses also shared more details about the murder of David Bureau. The first witness was David Breaux's sister, Anne Maria Breaux. She testified that her brother, known as 'compassion guy' was a Stanford University graduate, former high school teacher, and case manager for at-risk youth in Los Angeles. He struggled with depression, moved to the City of Davis in 2009, and became unhoused in 2018. Ian Haliburton, an ornithologist and former UC Davis Graduate student, and Aiden Reynolds, a current UC Davis Student, testified that they were monitoring birds in Central Park when they discovered Breaux's body. The court also heard from several law enforcement officials who were on the scene when the bureau's body was discovered. 'The exterior of his clothing had notable puncture marks on the upper torso area of his body, there was a saturation around those puncture marks that was red in color, it appeared to be blood,' Detective Alex Torres with the Davis Police Department testified. The detective also noted that Breaux was wearing four layers of clothing on his upper body, which he says is notable because of how deeply the knife cut through the garments and punctured the body. Torres also says he found two items near the body- a blanket and a leather knife sheath. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX40 News.
Yahoo
07-05-2025
- Yahoo
Day two: Former UC Davis student murder trial continues
( — The 10-week trial for former UC Davis student Carlos Reales Dominguez, who allegedly stabbed and killed two men and gravely injured one woman, resumed for the second day. Dominguez is being charged with murder, attempted murder, and unlawful use of a deadly weapon. On Tuesday, the prosecution presented the jury with graphic photographs of the deep, bloody, and fatal stab wounds that killed the first victim, David Breaux. Dominguez appeared to turn his head towards these photographs. Several of the 18 jury members exhibited arched brows, one woman leaning her head on her fist as she took in the brutality of these stab wounds. 'His neck was stiff, so rigor [mortis] had already started to set in, his arms were stiff, there were no respirations,' Patricia Mendes, a paramedic who responded to this crime scene, told the court. 'There were several puncture wounds on Mr. Breaux in the lower mid back, and then upon further examination, upper right side, shoulder and upper back,' Alex Torrez, a detective with the Davis Police Department also told the court. Cpl. Pheng Ly with the Davis Police Department shared his verbal testimony and body camera footage depicting his response to the murder of 20-year-old UC Davis student Karim Abou Najm, who was stabbed 52 times. 'You know, it's unusual circumstances and then given the fact that we had had a homicide a few days prior, that also played into my mindset as well,' Cpl. Ly told the court. The video begins in the corporal's car, sirens blaring and car wheels rapidly traversing the roads. He exits the vehicle and sees a man covered in stab wounds on the ground, and another man, who identifies himself as a doctor, giving the victim CPR. The Corporal pulls out a walkie-talkie and requests all units 'come out'. You can hear the doctor huffing and puffing as he continuously carried out chest compressions until other first responders arrived. The doctor tells the Corporal he lives nearby, heard screaming, and came outside to help. He also says he saw a 20-year-old light-skinned male with black curly hair ride off on a bike, and gestures the direction the suspect rode towards with his blood-covered hands. Another woman says she and her daughter heard a loud thumping sound and came out to help. A forensic analyst with the Yolo County District Attorney's Office testified that the defendant's phone had 500 images of knives similar to the one he allegedly ordered on Amazon and used in the stabbing. The analyst shared the GPS and Wi-Fi data he used to track Dominguez's iPhone on the night of the murders, as well as the estimated accuracy of those points. The defense claims the El Salvador-born former honor student and athlete began to have symptoms of schizophrenia after his first year at UC Davis. Dominguez allegedly believed he was being directed by supernatural beings. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to FOX40 News.
Washington Post
16-04-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
One man's deportation exposes Trump's immigration theater
However much President Donald Trump and his allies would like Americans to focus on the scale of what he presents as an unprecedented crackdown on illegal immigration in the United States, much of the country is instead focused on one particular immigrant: El Salvador-born Kilmar Abrego García, who was sent back to his native country as part of a high-profile federal operation last month.
Yahoo
05-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
The Lawlessness Of The Alien Enemies Removals Come Into Focus
Weeks have gone by since the Trump administration rushed three planeloads of deportees to an El Salvadorian labor camp. And yet, there are reams of basic questions about what happened to which we do not have answers. Take the question of the scope of the removals. On March 15, the Trump administration sent three planes to El Salvador. To DC chief judge James Boasberg, government attorneys have said that only the first two planes were used to conduct Alien Enemies Act removals. It's a key question that underlines how little we still know about what happened: how did the government decide who was subject to deportation without a hearing? Who was put on what plane? Boasberg provisionally accepted that the first two planes were the ones at issue, but new developments this week poured doubt on whether the third plane was only carrying people who were, as the government suggested, removed via normal, legal means. Kilmer Abrego Garcia, an El Salvador-born Maryland man subject to a 2019 immigration court order barring his removal was placed on the third plane. The Trump administration admitted in a court filing this week that Abrego had been deported due to an administrative error, and said that it had no plans to try to return him to the United States. The questions here are potentially endless. How could that have happened? Why was the Trump administration rushing? Might it have been, as TPM reporting has suggested, to evade judicial oversight? All of this caused Judge Boasberg to say at a Thursday hearing that he would likely reopen the question of the third plane. 'What you were willing to do by trying to do this as quickly as possible and avoid being enjoined by a court, was to risk putting people on those planes who shouldn't have been on the plane the first place,' Boasberg remarked. This also raises a thicket of other legal issues. A Maryland federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to return Abrego from El Salvador by Monday; the government immediately appealed. If the order stands, will the Trump administration move to comply? Abrego (and the other detainees) are not in the custody of the United States. Will Nayyib Bukele comply? Do wardens at the El Salvadorian labor camp keep close tabs on where each detainee is held? We don't know, but it all emphasizes the profound lawlessness of the administration's decision to remove people that day. — Josh Kovensky Kate Riga looks at Democrats' victory in Wisconsin this week and the way in which it informs how the party, which has developed a reputation of complacency, thinks about its post-2024 strategy. Emine Yücel has more from Senate Democrats this week as they attempt to raise the alarm about Republicans' attempt to use a budget gimmick to make portions of the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent with only 50 votes. Khaya Himmelman unpacks the Justice Department's ongoing fixation with Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX) as it attempts to intimidate her out of publicly criticizing Elon Musk. Let's dig in. Recent off-year elections have Democrats feeling buoyed, a fairly foreign experience since President Trump's win in November. So far, things are feeling pretty thermostatic-y — Democrats are hungry to come out and vote against Trump, even via other races. But for those critical of Democrats' recent approach, those howling that the party or at least its leadership needs to be retooled to be competitive at the presidential level again, it presents something of a risk. The party is criticized, often rightly, for its complacency, reluctance to innovate, fear of aggression — all factors that incentivize it to keep on keepin' on, even if its tactics have proved disastrously fallible. If leadership decides that the pendulum will swing back in its favor again no matter what it does, we're living in a reality where the Democratic Party changes very little after 2024, besides some lip service to its critics. Given the demographic trends encapsulated by the last election, that'd be a very risky bet to make. — Kate Riga Democrats are pointing to new projections from the Congressional Budget Service that shows the price tag for extending the 2017 Trump tax cuts will be higher than previously estimated. The new estimate says the tax cuts would all-in-all cost $5.5 trillion, up from the previous estimate of nearly $4 trillion. 'The Republican handouts to billionaires and corporations will come at a staggering cost,' top Democrats on the House and Senate tax and budget committees said in a joint statement on Thursday. 'What Republicans are trying to jam through Congress right now is a level of economic recklessness we've never seen before,' they added. The new numbers come as Senate Republicans are plowing ahead with their plan to utilize an unprecedented 'budget gimmick' to make portions of the 2017 Trump tax cuts permanent. The budget resolution text — that Senate GOP leadership put out on Wednesday — suggests Republicans plan to make up their own numbers and cost estimates as a way of shoehorning in the 'current policy baseline,' in order to zero out the cost of their tax cuts and claim on paper that the extension will be costless. The Senate took the initial procedural vote on the budget resolution Thursday night — with Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) being the only Republican to vote against the motion to proceed. A vote-a-rama is expected to begin Friday afternoon, which means by the time you're reading this Senate Republicans could've already passed their second budget blueprint. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) said he wants to push for a vote on the Senate's resolution as early as next week. But the almost inevitable resistance from hardliners in his conference could easily slow that timeline down. — Emine Yücel President Trump's nominee for D.C. U.S. Attorney Ed Martin issued an indirect warning to Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-TX), following a supposed altercation between Crockett and a journalist associated with right-wing conspiracy theorist Laura Loomer. It's another pointed example of the Department of Justice specifically going after President Donald Trump's perceived political enemies or anyone who criticizes the Trump administration. In a video posted on X, Charles Downs posted the incident between himself and Crockett. In the video, Downs asks Crockett about her remarks during a 'TeslaTakedown' conference call, in which she discussed Elon Musk and his recent slashing of the federal workforce and federal spending through his Department of Government Efficiency. The video ends abruptly, when Crockett appears to move the camera out of her face. But Downs, who published a follow up video on X, described the incident as an 'attack.' 'This matter extends beyond a personal dispute between Representative Crockett and myself. It concerns the protection of free speech within the Capitol, as the loss of free speech there would jeopardize its preservation across America,' Downs wrote on X. As a response to that video, Martin issued a warning to Crockett on X. 'As I've said from Day One, no one is above the law,' Martin wrote. 'This matter is currently under review by law enforcement authorities. If it is referred to the U.S. Attorney's Office, we will follow the proper procedures to determine whether chargers are appropriate.' Martin has issued similar warnings to other Democratic members of Congress for speech criticizing the Trump administration or the Supreme Court. The warning follows Attorney General Pom Bondi's similarly vague warning to Crockett, directing her to 'tread very carefully,' after the lawmaker criticized Musk during last month's 'TeslaTakedown' conference call. Bondi issued her warning even though Crockett specifically clarified during the call that she was not calling for violence of any kind and that the protest she was promoting was 'nonviolent.' On Wednesday, Crockett fired back at Bondi during a House Judiciary Committee meeting, saying: 'To have her go on Fox News, and to then decide that she wanted to send a threat to me, it was wrong.' — Khaya Himmelman
Yahoo
04-04-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Maryland man illegally deported to El Salvador must be returned to US, judge rules
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to bring a Maryland man back to the U.S. by midnight Monday after concluding that he was unlawfully deported to his home country of El Salvador despite an immigration court order that he not be sent there. U.S. District Judge Paula Xinis issued the order Friday requiring the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia following an extraordinary hearing during which the government flatly admitted that he'd been deported in violation of federal law. 'This was an illegal act,' Xinis told a Justice Department lawyer. 'Congress said you can't do it, and you did it anyway.' The court's order that the administration bring the El Salvador-born Abrego Garcia back could produce a direct clash between the judicial branch and President Donald Trump's White House.
