An ex-con who joined his best friend in a “home invasion assassination” of a 43-year-old Menifee man and perpetrated other crimes is slated for sentencing Friday.
A Murrieta jury earlier this month convicted Rodolfo Garcia, 44, of Perris guilty of first-degree murder for gunning down Silvano Gutierrez Esteves in 2018.
Along with murder, jurors also found Garcia guilty of four counts of armed robbery, three counts of kidnapping to commit robbery, two counts each of false imprisonment and firearm assault, and one count of burglary, with multiple sentence-enhancing allegations of using a firearm during felonious offenses. They acquitted him of carjacking…