Jury convicts man of first-degree murder in Elk Grove woman’s 2021 stabbing death

Jurors on Thursday convicted a man of first-degree murder in a 2021 stabbing attack that left a woman dead in her Elk Grove home, Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office officials said.

Ricky Sims, 42, was found guilty in Sacramento Superior Court of killing 36-year-old Mayra Guillen on Aug. 15, 2021, inside the Sierra Street home they shared.

Prosecutors at trial said Sims told emergency dispatchers that he had stabbed Guillen in self-defense…

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