BAKERSFIELD, Calif.(KBAK/KBFX) — A double-convicted murderer, Francisco Pimentel Jr., was denied parole by the California Board of Parole Hearings (BPH) last week, the Kern County District Attorney’s Office announced. He continues to pose a current and unreasonable risk to public safety, said the DA.
Pimentel, now 43, was convicted of the 1999 murders of Gabriel Salcido and Edward Gonzalez Jr. when he was 17. On the night of July 22, 1999, Pimentel, upset over the victims’ presence at his home, who were drinking and listening to music, shot them with a shotgun. A witness reported hearing five gunshots in “rapid succession” and later saw Pimentel and another male leaving the scene. Law enforcement discovered a garbage bag containing bloody clothes, shoes, a victim’s cell phone, expended shotgun shells, and the murder weapon.
Pimentel confessed to the murders, in which he moved the victim’s vehicle into the garage, dragging the two bodies over to the car, put them in the backseat, and hosed blood off the walkway…