Steven Carrillo, 34, had pleaded guilty earlier this year for his killing of Federal Protective Services Officer Patrick Underwood in a May 2020 drive-by shooting.
In agreeing to the plea deal, Carrillo had to admit not just to murdering Underwood but to aligning with anti-government groups, plotting attacks, and promoting anti-police violence on Facebook. He was part of the so-called Boogaloo movement, a loosely organized far-right network in the U.S. whose adherents say they are preparing for an impending civil war.
He was arrested a week after Underwood’s murder, in Ben Lomond, after allegedly ambushing and murdering Santa Cruz Sheriff’s Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller in a shooting that injured three other officers. Police allege he lobbed pipe bombs and opened fire on the officers using the same gun he used to kill Underwood.
After tearful testimony by Underwood’s family, presentations by the prosecutors and defense attorneys and a speech by the judge directed at the family, Gonzalez Rogers accepted the deal that will send Carillo behind bars for 41 years. Meanwhile, he is facing pending state murder charges for killing Gutzwiller.
Underwood’s sister, Angela Underwood Jacobs, spoke of how, almost exactly two years after Carrillo shot and killed Underwood, she often thinks of how Underwood spent his last moments.
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