Orange County man convicted in fatal stabbing of man ‘over a truck and a set of lies’
LA TimesThe fatal stabbing of 50-year-old Toye Mims Jones outside an Orange County sober living home was quick and based on a series of lies, prosecutors told an Orange County jury. According to the Orange County district attorney’s office, Burnett had arrived that afternoon at the Sober Living House on Canton Avenue with Bryon Martinez and Christina Roberts with the intention of retrieving a truck. Roberts told Martinez and Burnett that she had been kidnapped, drugged and raped by Jones and his roommate at the sober living home, according to court documents. Stonum told the jury in his closing arguments, “It was a senseless death over a truck and a set of lies.” Burnett’s conviction included the special allegation that he used a knife during the killing, according to the Orange County district attorney’s office.
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