The Bay Area man who used a samurai sword to behead the mother of his young daughter is headed to prison for at least 25 years.
His sentencing comes two months after he was
of first-degree murder.
The suspect known as Rafa Solano was sentenced by a judge on Tuesday to 25 years to life in prison with the possibility of parole. This is the sentence for first-degree murder in California.
Before his sentence, he had to listen to a number of victim impact statements from the family of 27-year-old Karina Castro, Solano’s ex-girlfriend, who was killed and beheaded with a sword in the middle of a street in San Carlos back in 2022.
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Rafa Solano has been found guilty of first-degree murder after he beheaded his ex-girlfriend with a samurai sword.
Castro’s family and friends described the crime as the “worst kind of evil” and believed Castro was protecting her two young daughters at the time.