At sentencing, Gage H. Pontarelli, 30, found guilty of murder in January 2023, said, “There’s nothing I can say that will bring Samantha back. I wish I could go back in time and change …
At the end of a six-year-old case, a 30-year-old Vacaville man found guilty in 2023 of shooting and killilng his on-again, off-again girlfriend in a Vacaville garage told the court, his statement ringing with familiarity at other sentencings for murder, “There’s nothing I can say that will bring Samantha back.”
Looking directly at Pontarelli and defense attorney Matthew Siroka, the judge noted that the law requires that, one day, Pontarelli will be granted a parole hearing and if “he takes responsibility for his crime, he can be paroled. But he can also remain in prison for the rest of his life.” He said testimony during the three-week trial that begin in December 2022 “portrayed her as some sort of psychotic devil.”
Pontarelli, he said, “left her to die alone, like a dog on the side of a road. It’s difficult to forgive someone who doesn’t seem to want to be forgiven.” When she received the news of the fatal shooting, she said, tearing up and choking back her words, “I wanted to die.”“There was no excuse for my daughter’s murder,” said Zerbe.
Underwood insisted the case “was about murder,” not the lesser included offenses of voluntary or involuntary manslaughter, a reference to statements Pendergast made during his initial jury instructions as the trial wound down. Pontarelli, who reportedly lived in the garage, was also at the scene. Officers indicated that he said he had been in a fight with Jack.
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