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Santa Margarita, CA – According to the Orange County District Attorney’ Office
(OCDA) Pasqual Raul Loera an unemployed Navy deserter was convicted and
sentenced today to life in state prison without the possibility of parole for
the Valentine's Day shooting-murder of a woman and her live-in boyfriend after
posing as a potential car buyer.
Loera, 38,
Redlands, pleaded guilty today, April 18, 2016, to two felony counts of special
circumstances murder. The special circumstances include murder during the
commission of robbery, murder during the commission of burglary, and multiple
murders.
On Feb. 14, 2010, Loera went to
the Westminster home of couple Julie Palasco and Dennis Koire under the false
pretense of buying an Infiniti sedan that the victims had listed for sale with
AutoTrader. Loera and the victims did not know each other.
After entering the victims' home,
the Loera shot and murdered 48-year-old Palasco. Loera then shot and critically
injured 49-year-old Koire, stole the Infiniti, and fled the scene.
Loera
drove to his home in Redlands and accidently shot himself in the foot with the
firearm when it slipped from his waistband and discharged as he got out of his
vehicle. Without seeking medical treatment for his foot, the defendant left
Redlands and drove to a casino near the Nevada state border.
Loera attracted the attention of
casino security by walking around the parking lot and crying. Security asked
Loera to leave. Loera subsequently drove away from the casino in the Infiniti
and crashed into a ditch.
Officers from the Las Vegas
Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) responded to the scene and determined
that the vehicle belonged to the couple in Westminster. The Westminster Police
Department (WPD), who investigated this case, were contacted to perform a
welfare check on Palasco and Koire. Palasco was found dead at the scene and
Koire was transported to the hospital in critical condition.
Loera was arrested by LVMPD and
later brought back to Orange County to face charges of murder and attempted
murder. The defendant was interviewed by WPD detectives and confessed to
shooting the two victims.
Kiore suffered a gunshot wound to
the head and remained in a coma for 13 months until he died as a direct result
of his injuries in March 2011. Loera's attempted murder charge was subsequently
upgraded to murder.
Senior Deputy District Attorney
Steve McGreevy of the Homicide Unit prosecuted this case.
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