Tristan Beaudette, 35, was shot dead while camping with his two young daughters. His killer is scheduled to be sentenced on June 7.
fatally shot a research scientist from Irvine as he slept inside a tent
Friends and family of Beaudette in the courtroom were visibly emotional as the verdicts were read, with one of them openly weeping. Rauda, who had previously waived his right to be present, was not in the downtown Los Angeles courtroom.Hunter thanked the jurors for their service, noting their diligence in deliberating a complex case that included 16 overall charges. The jury began deliberating Tuesday morning.
Unsuspecting motorists were also shot at while driving nearby in white vehicles at night, with ballistics testing subsequently linking a rifle that was found in a backpack Rauda was carrying at the time of his arrest to the bullet that killed Beaudette and a shooting that damaged a white Tesla being driven nearby a few days earlier, according to the prosecutor.
Rauda’s attorney, Nicholas Okorocha, countered that there was “reasonable doubt” involving the charges against his client.“You have these unanswered questions,” the defense lawyer said in his closing argument. In her rebuttal argument, the prosecutor countered that the discussion about the cigarette butts was a “red herring,” saying they were found in a public campground and had no logical connection to Beaudette’s shooting.
“I heard the girls crying,” he said, telling jurors that Beaudette’s youngest daughter said, “Wet, wet” and that he didn’t think anything about it at the time.
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