Carlos Reales Dominguez deliberately ambushed his victims — one then another in separate Davis city parks — before nearly killing a third person inside a streetside tent, a Yolo County prosecutor told jurors Friday in closing arguments at the former UC Davis student’s murder trial.
Dominguez, 22, has schizophrenia, prosecutor Matt DeMoura acknowledged, but argued to the jury that the defendant was fully aware of his actions when he fatally stabbed David Breaux and Karim Abou Najm in Davis’ Central and Sycamore parks. Days later, Dominguez severely wounded Kimberlee Guillory in what authorities described as a random but targeted spree of violence that terrorized Davis residents in April and May 2023.
The courtroom phase determining Dominguez’s guilt came to its conclusion Friday in Yolo Superior Court in Woodland after five weeks of testimony before Judge Samuel McAdam. Dominguez has pleaded not guilty and not guilty by reason of insanity to the murders of Breaux, 50, and Najm, 20, and to attempted murder in the May 1 attack that nearly claimed the life of Guillory, then 64…