Illegal Deported 10 Times Before Killing Girlfriend

California’s sanctuary policy and Los Angeles County’s former soft-on-crime DA George Gascón enabled an illegal alien from El Salvador to murder his girlfriend in front of her 3-year-old daughter last month. Norma Riveiro and Lorena Bourdevaire-Casillas of NBC News San Diego report that police identified Herbert Nixon Flores as the person who shot 35-year-old Karen Ruiz in the Pacoima suburb of Los Angeles County on January 8. Flores had committed multiple crimes since entering California illegally in 1990, including drug trafficking, theft, illegal possession of firearms and identify theft. He had been deported 10 times. Flores was arrested last August for severely beating Ruiz, but under Gascón’s policy of not holding criminals charged with assault, he was released days after his arrest. Under California’s SB 54, a 2017 law called the California Trust Act, local police are forbidden from holding arrestees like Flores for deportation by federal authorities.

A story by Matthew Ormseth in the Los Angeles Times indicates that, two days after the murder police tracked Flores driving toward Dallas, Texas. When he realized he was being tracked, he abandoned his car and continued on foot. As marked police cars moved in to make the arrest, Flores fatally shot himself with a handgun he had been carrying, police said.

Police obtained surveillance video of the murder showing Flores drive up to catch Ruiz outside of her house. As she screams and runs for the door, Flores shoots her six times with a shotgun at point blank range.

While the voters and supporters share responsibility for giving pro-criminal progressive democrats the super-majority in the Legislature to pass SB 54 and elect Governor Jerry Brown to sign it into law, and George Gascón allowing Flores out of jail, most of this woman’s blood is on Brown and Gascón’s hands.