East Los Angeles Man Who Killed His
Girlfriend Sentenced to Multiple Life Terms

March 19, 2008
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contacts: Joe Scott, Director of Communications
Sandi Gibbons, Public Information Officer
Jane Robison, News Secretary
(213) 974-3525

LOS ANGELES – An East Los Angeles man convicted earlier this year of murdering his girlfriend was sentenced today to three life terms by a Los Angeles Superior Court judge.

Deputy District Attorney Mary Murray of the Family Violence Division said Judge George G. Lomeli also ordered 37-year-old Eric Simmons to pay restitution for burial expenses in the amount of $8,372.75.

In February 2008, Simmons was convicted for the murder of Isabel Sanchez, 36, whom he shot in the face with a shotgun at his East Los Angeles area home. Sanchez died on May 12, 2006. Simmons also was convicted of attempted murder and kidnapping for carjacking. A Los Angeles Superior Court jury also found true all allegations of gun use, great bodily injury and domestic violence.

Simmons, who shot another woman in the home as she attempted to flee, carjacked a vehicle from a young Marine in training to go to Iraq, authorities said. The defendant fled and was arrested two days later at a Temple City motel. The carjacked vehicle was found in Alhambra.

The young man who was carjacked was not injured.

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