Carlos Reales Dominguez’s father testified he first saw the signs that something was wrong with his eldest son the winter before the violence that would stun Davis just months later.
“I tried to talk to him, if he could tell me what was going on; if he was consuming something; what he was feeling,” Juan Carlos Reales said Monday through an interpreter as testimony in Dominguez’s murder trial resumed in Yolo Superior Court in Woodland. “We wanted him to stay home because we saw he was not in a good state.”
Dominguez’s defense opened Monday with Reales’ testimony laying out the timeline of his son’s life: their native El Salvador; then Oakland, where Dominguez’s mother had family and where he was raised. Dominguez’s final months at UC Davis and the charges that had the former UC Davis student facing judge and jury in a Yolo County courtroom…