Franco Neftali booking photo (COURTESY ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY)July 16, 2010
By LARRY WELBORN
THE ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER (California, USA)
Story HighlightsSANTA ANA – A former Santa Ana apartment manager was sentenced to 50-years to life in prison Friday for shooting a man between the eyes after he lost hundreds of dollars in a Cambodian dice game.
Ex-apartment manager gets 50 years to life in prison for shooting a man between the eyes after losing hundreds of dollars in a dice game.
Franco Edgar Neftali, 44, was convicted of first degree murder plus use of a gun in March for gunning down Son Neou, 67, on Jan. 11, 2007, in the Bishop Manor apartment complex about 15 minutes after he lost his stash in the illegal dice game.
Neou was one of the organizers of the dice game and was in charge of collecting the money, according to witnesses.
Deputy District Attorney Scott Simmons said Neftali was unhappy about losing his bets and came back with a gun and shot Neou once between the eyes out of revenge, then fled from the scene.
Witnesses testified they saw Neftali with a gun beforehand, but no one claimed they saw the actual shooting, Simmons said.
Neftali, who contends that he was not the gunman, did not comment before was sentenced by Superior Court Judge M. Marc Kelly.
Sam Son, an Iraq war veteran and the son of the victim, said he tried to forgive Neftali for murdering his father, but could not do so after seeing his demeanor in court.
He also read a victim-impact statement from his sister, who could not be present for the sentencing.
"The most heartbreaking part of losing my father was the pain my mother had to undergo losing her husband in such a tragic way," Jane Son wrote. "It opened a much deeper wound inside her than anything I could comprehend."
Contact the writer: lwelborn@ocregister.com or 714-834-3784
9 comments:
Live and die for the game is only game,nothing more or nothing less.
please ignore this terrible tragedy out of space KI.
Go a head send this monster murdered to jail for a very very long time...you lost money and got mad? why bother gamble stupid?
Neftali was a victim, Son Neou was a thief, a bandit, Son Noeu deserves to die because he stole money from Neftali. If Neftali did not lose money he would not kill Son Neou, the game killed Son Neou.
AH!4:50AM,WHAT`S THE HELL ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT???.SO THEN IF YOU LOST GAMBLING TO SOMEONE,IT MEANT YOU GONNA TO KILL SOMEONE FOR REVENGE????.YOU ARE SPYCHOPATH,MOTHERFUCKER!,GET LOST AND DO NOT GO NEAR TO ANY CASINO!.OTHERWISE,YOU WILL KILL EVERYBODY AROUND YOU!....YOU IDIOT!.
Yes, games are bad, casinos are bad, they destroy men, families and lifes..
LOL 4:50 AM wtf? Neftali is not the victim, that guy should have stopped after losing his first hundred instead he gambled and just kept on doing it until all his money was gone, and then he actually had the nutt sack to come back and shoot Son Neou but didn't even have half the nutt sack to take his money back afterwards and just ran. Straight BITCH, and a sore loser, I hope the Cambodians rape his ass in prison.
Send this Fat PIG to jail the rest of his Fat ass fucken life!! if you affraid of losing money, don't gamble mother fucker! when you won money, you'r happy? and whne you lose got mad? what ta fuck..????
You must take your own people side, never take other people side stupid moron!
4:50am! ah pleu lop lop! you should take side with your own people dumbfucken shit!!!!!!!!
Put this Fat murdered behind bars for the rest of his fucken life!
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