A Yolo County murder trial that relived the terror of a 2023 Davis stabbing spree. The Placer County criminal trial of a former major league pitcher-turned murder suspect in his in-laws’ Lake Tahoe slayings. The shocking torching and sudden destruction of a Northern California landmark. A death verdict for a convicted cop killer. The Roseville adoptive father sentenced for his young son’s murder.
The stories that shook Davis and Lake Tahoe, Chico, Roseville and the capital city, wended their way through Sacramento-area courtrooms in 2025; some cases finding resolution in a jury’s verdict and judge’s sentence; while others must wait for judgment in the New Year.
Davis stabbing trial deadlocks, prompting new trial
A new trial for Carlos Reales Dominguez, the former UC Davis student acquitted of murder in June in the 2023 Davis stabbing spree that left two men dead and a woman seriously injured, is set for early 2026 in Yolo Superior Court in Woodland.
Dominguez remains held in Yolo County Jail awaiting a second trial in the April 2023 knife killings of David Breaux, 50, and Karim Abou Najm, 20, at Davis’ Central and Sycamore parks…