California man who propped dead wife up on Christmas as kids opened presents found guilty of her murder KATE FELDMAN
A California man who bashed his wife’s head in, then staged her body on the couch while her children opened their Christmas presents was convicted Wednesday of second-degree murder.
William Wallace, 39, used “blunt force trauma” to knock Zazell Preston, 26, unconscious sometime between between Dec. 24 and Dec. 25, 2011, according to investigators.
On Christmas morning, Wallace then propped Preston’s body on the couch with sunglasses on and proceeded as normal.
“Mommy ruined Christmas, she got drunk and ruined Christmas,” he told the children, according to prosecutors.
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Southern California mass shooting leaves four dead, including nine-year-old boy
On the evening of March 31, in the Southern California city of Orange, located near Disneyland, the twentieth in a string of mass shootings in the United States took place, leaving four dead, including a nine-year-old boy.
Carrying a backpack with pepper spray, handcuffs and ammunition, and holding a semiautomatic handgun, the 44-year-old shooter, Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez, entered a small office complex located on a main boulevard in the usually peaceful suburb, and locked the building’s gates behind him. The shooter evidently targeted the owner of the business, Unified Homes, a real estate and manufactured homes business, as well as his family members.