{"id":434109,"date":"2025-12-08T21:24:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/434109\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T21:24:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:24:10","slug":"man-convicted-in-chula-vista-hatchet-slaying-sentenced-to-prison-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/434109\/","title":{"rendered":"Man convicted in Chula Vista hatchet slaying sentenced to prison \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man convicted of killing another man with a hatchet behind a Chula Vista business was sentenced Monday to 56 years to life in state prison.<\/p>\n<p>Angel Padilla, 42, was convicted by a Chula Vista Superior Court jury of first-degree murder for the Dec. 9, 2020, killing of Abraham Raymond Alvarez, who was homeless at the time of his death. Officers found the victim\u2019s body slumped alongside a wall behind the Bank of America branch office on E Street near Third Avenue about 10:30 p.m., according to Chula Vista police.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Padilla struck the victim multiple times in the head, then fled the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Padilla was spotted on surveillance footage with \u201ca hatchet-type weapon near where the victim was found,\u201d then was arrested one day later.<\/p>\n<p>A motive for the slaying was uncertain, though Padilla\u2019s defense attorney argued at trial that he acted in self-defense.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man convicted of killing another man with a hatchet behind a Chula Vista business was sentenced Monday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":55267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,16214,356,5295,1370,728,50,3549,3550,7264,34159,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-434109","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-chula-vista","12":"tag-courts","13":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-local-news","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-san-diego","18":"tag-san-diego-county","19":"tag-sandiego","20":"tag-south-county","21":"tag-united-states","22":"tag-united-states-of-america","23":"tag-unitedstates","24":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","25":"tag-us","26":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115686058496942988","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434109\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}