Carlos Dominguez made a series of deliberate choices — he chose to lunge at and repeatedly stab his victims, to kill them and flee, a Yolo County prosecutor told jurors Wednesday during closing argument in the guilt phase of the former UC Davis student’s second murder trial in Woodland.
Yolo County Deputy District Attorney Alex Kian dismissed defense claims that Dominguez’s mental illness prevented him from forming criminal intent during the April 2023 slayings of David Breaux and Karim Abou Najm in Davis city parks, arguing Dominguez knew what he was doing when he attacked the two men.
Breaux, 50, was the first victim, sleeping on a bench in Davis’ Central Park when he was fatally attacked. Breaux was stabbed 31 times. Dominguez later told examining doctors while in custody that he was guided by voices to approach the figure on the bench, Kian said…