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Life Sentence for Pakistani Murderer Rohail Sarwar

September 16, 2019 7:50 amSeptember 16, 2019 7:56 am

Yolo County Judge Paul Richardson on Thursday sentenced Rohail Sarwar to life in prison without possibility of parole for the murder of Junying Lu. Judge Richardson told the court the crime was among the “most vicious criminal acts” he had...

Verdict in Yolo County Murder Trial

August 1, 2019 10:35 amAugust 2, 2019 8:37 am

A Yolo County jury on Thursday found Rohail Sarwar guilty of first degree murder for the fatal stabbing of massage worker Junying Lu in the Cottonwood Massage last August 21. Sarwar was 27 and his victim 51. California Globe covered...

Yolo County Murder Trial Reveals Back Story of Violence Against Women

July 25, 2019 3:30 pmJuly 25, 2019 3:43 pm

Rohail Sarwar, a native of Pakistan, is on trial for the murder of Sacramento resident Junying Lu, 51, in a Woodland, CA massage parlor last August. Last Friday in Yolo County Court, the defendant did not testify but the first...

California Mass Murderer Juan Corona Dies at 85

March 5, 2019 7:50 pmMarch 5, 2019 7:46 pm

“California State Prison-Corcoran inmate Juan Vallejo Corona, 85, died of natural causes at 8:15 a.m. on Monday, March 4,” the California Department of Corrections reports. Readers learned that Corona was “serving 25 concurrent life sentences for 25 counts of first-degree...