Brandon Colbert, 23, acts as his own attorney at a preliminary hearing in his murder case. (Credit: Rick Loomis / Los Angeles Times)
An Oklahoma man with a history of mental illness was convicted Friday of shooting and killing a Long Beach woman and her 4-year-old daughter as they returned home from grocery shopping in 2016.
It took a jury only hours to find Brandon Colbert, 24, guilty of murder in the deaths of Carina Mancera, 26, and her daughter, Jennabel. Colbert also was convicted of attempted murder of Mancera’s longtime boyfriend, Luis Anaya.
Prosecutors have never explained why Colbert — a native of Tulsa, Okla., who came to California for the first time just days before the slayings — would gun down the mother and child on a Long Beach street in August 2016.
Luis Anaya is seen with his daughter, Jennabel Anaya, and girlfriend, Carina Mancera, in a photo posted to a GoFundMe page.
He was arrested for stealing a car days after the shooting, but those charges were dropped. Months later, police matched Colbert to DNA found on a spent shotgun shell at the crime scene.
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