A 32-year-old Anaheim man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison for stalking his ex-girlfriend and stabbing two of her friends as he confronted her in Fullerton, according to court records obtained Monday.
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Renner Efrain AplicanoGuevara was convicted Dec. 11 of attempted murder, assault with a deadly weapon, domestic violence, vandalism, possessing a short-barreled shotgun and stalking, all felonies.
Prosecutors sought a punishment of 15 years and four months in prison for the defendant.
AplicanoGuevara was given credit for 1,739 days credit behind bars when Orange County Superior Court Judge Lance Jensen sentenced him on Friday.
The defendant’s attorneys said in court papers that he was acting in self-defense and that he “expresses remorse for his emotional reaction to seeing his ex-girlfriend … with another man but maintains he never intended to kill (the victims).”