{"id":4407,"date":"2022-04-12T05:53:29","date_gmt":"2022-04-12T12:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/?p=4407"},"modified":"2022-04-12T18:30:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T01:30:45","slug":"jury-deliberating-shooters-role-in-killing-of-el-dorado-county-deputy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.newsmolo.com\/EDC\/2019\/2022\/04\/12\/jury-deliberating-shooters-role-in-killing-of-el-dorado-county-deputy\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury Deliberating Shooter\u2019s Role In Killing Of El Dorado County Deputy"},"content":{"rendered":"
[Thomas Frey, TDT]<\/pre>\n
A jury began deliberations April 6 in Juan Carlos Vazquez-Orozco\u2019s homicide trial. Vazquez-Orozco is accused of shooting and killing El Dorado County sheriff\u2019s deputy Brian Ishmael Oct. 23, 2019.<\/p>\n
Vazquez-Orozco is charged with murder in the first degree and assault with a firearm. He maintains he was shooting in self-defense when he pulled the trigger on the gun, taking 37-year-old Ishmael\u2019s life and wounding San Joaquin County deputy Josh Tasabia, who was on a ridealong. He also shot at deputies Brian Shelton and Shawn Taroli.<\/p>\n
The defendant was living at 4740 Sand Ridge Road, a property owned by Christopher Ross. His job was to tend to about 100 marijuana plants of Ross\u2019 as part of an illegal grow operation. Each plant was on target to yield about 3 pounds of marijuana.<\/p>\n
Vazquez-Orozco was 20 years old and sleeping in a tent with no bathroom or running water. He would be paid $200 a day once the crop was harvested. Deputy district attorney Joe Alexander estimated the plants were worth a combined $249,600 based off the testimony of Det. Michael Roberts, who said the going rate per pound was $800-$1,200 in 2019.<\/p>\n
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When Vazquez-Orozco began working for Ross about a month before Oct. 23, 2019, he had been living in the United States for a little more than a year. He testified \u2014 through an interpreter \u2014 that when he lived in Mexico, he worked with cattle and was paid 5,000 pesos a month \u2014 about $200-$250.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s making almost as much per day working in this marijuana garden as he would working a month running cattle in Mexico,\u201d Alexander said. \u201cThat\u2019s an incentive because he\u2019s not going to get paid if there is no harvest.\u201d<\/p>\n
He was given a .22 revolver not by Ross, but by a growing ring boss the prosecution identified with the name of Abelardo.<\/p>\n
Taking the stand, Vazquez-Orozco told his attorney Lori London he was given instructions that if robbers came on the property, \u201cthat I should scare them\u201d and that he was \u201ctold to shoot.\u201d<\/p>\n
While Vazquez-Orozco claimed he was acting in self-defense, Alexander pointed out that the value of the crop was \u201ca powerful motive\u201d to protect the marijuana.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe is not in imminent danger. He\u2019s not defending himself. He\u2019s defending marijuana. He\u2019s intent to kill anyone who threatens the marijuana,\u201d Alexander said.<\/p>\n
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He described walking forward a little bit and shooting again. \u201cThey started shooting at me. I didn\u2019t know what to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Then he hid behind a post for about five minutes.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was scared but I couldn\u2019t hear anything. (There were) no lights. Everything had gone back to normal,\u201d Vazquez-Orozco said.<\/p>\n
He explained that he had left his phone and shoes in the tent and made his way back in that direction.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I got to the tent I thought they had left,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n
He said he heard gunfire. \u201cThe next thing I know I had been shot in my leg,\u201d Vazquez-Orozco testified. \u201cAt that moment I was scared so I just ran. I was running and firing at the same time. I was just shooting. I didn\u2019t know what direction, I was just shooting behind.\u201d<\/p>\n
That statement didn\u2019t corroborate with the testimony of Tasabia.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Tasabia) said the first time he saw the defendant, the defendant was coming out from that brush pile, pointing the gun and pulling the trigger,\u201d Alexander argued. \u201cJosh Tasabia was very adamant about how the defendant started both the first volley and the second volley.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s shooting at Brian Ishmael specifically and he strikes Brian Ishmael four times and I cannot emphasize that enough because you\u2019re not shooting in the ground or shooting randomly or shooting over your shoulder as you\u2019re running wildly through the woods,\u201d Alexander said. \u201cYou hit your intended target four times; that\u2019s really good. How do you shoot the ground and somehow miraculously hit your intended target at a rate of about 45%.\u201d<\/p>\n
Vazquez-Orozco took 11 shots and hit Ishmael on four of them and Tasabia on another.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo say that the killing of Brian Ishmael was a fluke is an insult to common sense,\u201d Alexander said. \u201cAnd it\u2019s an insult to the crime scene evidence and the testimony.\u201d<\/p>\n
Alexander, in his closing argument asked […]<\/p>\n
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