A Santa Maria man received a sentence of 29 years to life in prison for the first-degree murder of an individual in Oxnard in 2018.
Manuel Dominguez, 25, entered a guilty plea in August for the homicide of Robert Gutierrez in Oxnard and acknowledged the use of a pistol during the offense.
The homicide occurred on December 13, 2018, when Dominguez revisited a previous neighborhood in Oxnard and encountered Gutierrez.
Following a short verbal confrontation, Dominguez discharged a firearm at Gutierrez, striking him in the chest from approximately 30 feet away, according to officials. Gutierrez was sent to a nearby hospital, where he succumbed to his injuries.