Parole has been denied to a man from Anaheim who was convicted in the 1993 fatal shooting of his brother-in-law, who had disciplined his own daughters for dressing in gang attire.
Deputy District Attorney Jess Rodriguez of the Special Prosecutions Unit attended a hearing to oppose parole for Octavio Garcia Zetina, according to Roxi Fyad of the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.
“Before denying the inmate’s parole, the board took into consideration Zetina’s violent history, the circumstances of the murder and lack of insight and his prison rules violations,” Fyad said.
Zetina, 47, is next eligible for parole in 2019 after his failed hearing Wednesday.
Zetina is imprisoned at California Men’s Colony in San Luis Obispo. He was convicted of second-degree murder with a sentencing enhancement for the use of a firearm and was sentenced May 5, 1995, to 20 years to life in state prison, Fyad said.
Zetina was 24 and on probation for a domestic violence conviction on Feb. 14, 1993 — Valentines Day — when he killed Jose Alvarenga, whose daughters had told Zetina that their father had pushed their mother, the inmate’s sister, out of the way when attempted to intervene while Alvarenga was arguing with his daughters for dressing in gang attire, Fyad said.
Zetina became upset and later that day, while attending a birthday party for the victim’s 1-year-old son, he shot and killed Alvarenga, a married father of three, Fyad said.
“The inmate told the victim, ‘I told you not to hit my sister. I’m going to kill you,’ before shooting the victim five times, the last shot at point-blank range to the victim’s eye while the victim was on the ground as a result of the four prior gunshot wounds,” Fyad said.
“Zetina killed Alvarenga in front of the victim’s children at the birthday party with other children present while Alvarenga was unarmed and helpless.”
Fyad said that three years before the killing “a drunken Zetina grabbed the mother of two of his children by the hair, hit her in the face and dragged her on her knees across the street to a curb, where he then kicked her in the face.”
Zetina told responding officers that he was going to kill the woman, Fyad said.
A year before that incident, Zetina called police to report that he had pulled a knife on his wife, and that she had been accidentally cut when she grabbed for the blade.
–City News Service