On Thursday, September 8, a schizophrenic man who was found guilty of killing three men was given his sentence. Marvin Magallanes said he was Kylie Jenner’s boyfriend because he was so in love with her. He also said that the 25-year-old businesswoman had asked him to kill the people.
Reports say that the 31-year-old said Kylie told him to kill someone or his own life would end. Magallanes had killed Onosai Tavita, who was 52, and Sabah Alsaad, who was 49. He had also strangled Danny Pham, who was his cellmate. Tavita was his first victim. In October 2016, he stabbed Tavita to death as he slept outside of a restaurant at 990 S. Euclid St. in Anaheim.
A few months later, in January 2017, Alsaad was the next person the man went after. On 1200 S. Magnolia St., he was also killed while sleeping on a bus bench. After he was caught, the killer told police that he had seen Alsaad sleeping on his way home. But he went back and stabbed him with a kitchen knife.
Magallanes’ crazy killings didn’t stop there. Once he was in jail, he killed Pham by strangling him in July of 2017. Pham was about to get out of jail after serving 180 days for stealing a car. The Daily Mail said that the horrifying event was “caught on CCTV, with Pham trying to push the panic button.”
The criminal was found guilty of two counts of first-degree murder and one count of second-degree murder in August of this year. His trial had been put off for years because of his mental illness. Judge Kimberly Menninger of the Orange County Superior Court gave him 17 years of life in prison and two terms of life without parole.
Menninger made her decision after Michael Hill, Magallanes’s lawyer, asked for a new trial and Menninger said no. The judge is said to have said that the defense attorney’s requests were “novel and interesting,” but not in line with state law. She also said that the man’s three victims were “attacked randomly for no reason.”
Reports say that Pham’s older sister, Tina Wu, was in court and told the judge, “It’s impossible to put into words what this horrible crime has done to me. My whole family has been affected by the death of my brother, and now we all live in fear, stress, and worry. Wu also said that Magallanes is “selfish, disrespectful, brutal, violent, and careless,” but she added that she is “praying” for him and “working on forgiving” him.
Wu said, “When I think about my brother, I carry him, bathe him, and change his diapers. I was there when he took his first steps and lost his first tooth. He liked video games and sports just like most boys. He enjoyed basketball and baseball. He loved eating American food, and his favorite was an In-N-Out burger and animal-style fries. He liked trying new things and even went ice skating with his family as a fun thing to do.
In 2016, Magallanes tried to break into Kylie Jenner’s home in Calabasas. He was given ten days in jail and one year of summary probation.
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