Pizza-Delivery Restaurant Employee Who Stabbed Supervisor is Convicted of First-Degree Murder
LA PUENTE – When does a pizza delivery restaurant order turn for the worse? Apparently, when Rafael Sanchez (dob 6/20/87) of Baldwin Park disliked his supervisor telling him to do his job.
According to the DA’s evidence presented to the court on November 20th, “The victim, Daniel Anthony Sanchez, 21, was killed on March 10, 2018, after telling the defendant to do his work. Sanchez, who is not related to the victim, snuck up behind the supervisor and stabbed him in the neck and back,” said the prosecutor Deputy District Attorney Eric Neff.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department investigated the case.
For fatally stabbing his supervisor, the 32-year-old former La Puente restaurant employee with the same last name was delivered a “guilty of one count of first-degree murder” – after the jury’s two-hour deliberation. Case KA117570’s jury also served up a “found true” in the allegation that Sanchez used a knife in the killing.
This conviction of murder’s add-on: a possible maximum sentence of 26 years to life in state prison at a sentencing scheduled on 1/15/20 in Department P of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Pomona Branch.
Los Angeles County District Attorney Jackie Lacey leads the largest local prosecutorial office in the nation. Her staff of nearly 1,000 attorneys, 300 investigators and 800 support staff members is dedicated to protecting our community through the fair and ethical pursuit of justice and the safeguarding of crime victims’ rights.
