P. v. Perriera CA3
Defendant and Virginia Perriera were married and shared a young daughter together. They had a tumultuous, on-again off-again relationship. They lived together in an RV park next to the victim, Darren Jopp. Defendant eventually moved out of the RV park. By July 2018, Virginia was dating Jopp. Jopp sometimes watched her daughter, whom he treated like his own child.
On July 3, 2018, defendant and Virginia had several profanity-laced phone calls during which defendant expressed his anger over Virginia hanging out with Jopp, and about how their daughter loved Jopp and not defendant. Defendant told Virginia he was heartbroken, and was “gonna go crazy . . . .”
On July 4, 2018, defendant and Virginia took their daughter to a family friend’s house to watch the fireworks. They left separately around 11:00 p.m. Sometime around then, Virginia called defendant several times, and he cursed at her to stop calling him.
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