A San Diego jury has found Davarold Jucynn Zeno guilty of first-degree murder with a lying-in-wait special circumstance for the 2021 killing of 23-year-old Jaylin Moore, who was shot while sleeping in his El Cajon apartment. A judge followed the jury’s finding by sentencing Zeno to life in prison without the possibility of parole, bringing a long-running homicide investigation to a hard close for detectives and Moore’s family.
The El Cajon Superior Court jury returned the guilty verdict and confirmed the lying-in-wait allegation, which legally removed any chance of parole, according to The San Diego Union-Tribune. The outlet reports that sentencing was handed down on March 13, 2026.
El Cajon police say Moore was gunned down in the early morning hours of Feb. 26, 2021, when shots were fired into his apartment from outside on the 800 block of South Magnolia Avenue. His live-in girlfriend found his body around 11:30 a.m. that day, according to the El Cajon Police Department. The department noted that officers had initially responded to reports of gunfire in the area but did not locate a crime scene until Moore was discovered later that morning…