Carlos Reales Dominguez returns to a Yolo County courtroom Thursday ahead of his scheduled second murder trial in the 2023 Davis knife rampage that left 2 men dead and a woman seriously injured.
The former UC Davis student’s first trial ended in mistrial after Yolo County jurors deadlocked last June setting the stage for a May retrial before Yolo Superior Court Judge Samuel T. McAdam. Dominguez has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity in the killings of David Breaux, 50, and Karim Abou Najm, 20, in Davis’ Central and Sycamore parks in late April 2023.
As in the first trial, Dominguez faces first-degree and second-degree murder charges in Breaux’s killing, and a second-degree murder charge in the slaying of Najm, a graduating UC Davis student…