Nathan J. Verdugo California

Nathan J. Verdugo is an inmate on death row in the state of California..

Crime

Verdugo shot to death a woman, Yolanda Navarro and her companion, Richard Rodriguez after mistaking her for someone involved in a fight at a Halloween party earlier that night.

The firefighters left the station. They found two bodies: the woman whose death Quintana had witnessed (later identified as Navarro) and a man (later identified as Rodriguez). Rodriguez's car was parked, but it was still running, with its lights on. It had sustained collision damage. About a car's length behind this vehicle, Firefighter Jones found a pair of wire-rimmed eyeglasses on the ground. The lenses in these glasses matched a prescription defendant had received about a year earlier. Also found in the area were five 12-gauge Fiocchi shotgun shells. There were skid marks behind the vehicle, and the distance between the skid marks matched the wheelbase on defendant's Honda CRX. The marks had been made by a front-wheel-drive car such as defendant's.

The firefighters blocked the streets with their fire engines. As they did so, Jonathan Rodriguez² arrived at the scene and told firefighters that he thought the deceased woman on the sidewalk was his sister. Firefighter Quintana questioned his identification because part of the woman's face was missing. Jonathan called his mother from the fire station and asked her to page his sister. A pager lying next to the woman began vibrating.

Address

Nathan J. Verdugo P60754

San Quentin State Prison Death Row

San Quentin, CA 94974

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