{"id":435782,"date":"2025-12-09T14:41:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/435782\/"},"modified":"2025-12-09T14:41:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-09T14:41:19","slug":"man-sentenced-for-chula-vista-hatchet-killing-nbc-7-san-diego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/435782\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced for Chula Vista hatchet killing \u2013 NBC 7 San Diego"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/news\/local\/man-arrested-a-few-blocks-away-day-after-hatchet-killing\/2468312\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">convicted of killing another man with a hatchet<\/a> behind a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcsandiego.com\/tag\/chula-vista\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chula Vista<\/a> business was sentenced Monday to 56 years to life in state prison.<\/p>\n<p>Angel Padilla, 42, was convicted by a Chula Vista 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&#8217;s body slumped alongside a wall behind the Bank of America branch office at 295 E St. about 10:30 that night, 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 &#8220;a hatchet-type weapon near where the victim was found,&#8221; then was arrested one day later.<\/p>\n<p>A motive for the slaying was uncertain, though Padilla&#8217;s 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":435783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,16214,1035,3549,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-435782","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-crime-and-courts","13":"tag-san-diego","14":"tag-sandiego","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115690136166093672","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435782","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=435782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}