California man, 49, ‘bludgeoned co-worker, 56, to death with an irrigation pipe after colleagues bullied him because his ex-girlfriend had started an affair with the man’
- Jose Gutierrez-Rosales, 49, is accused of beating his his co-worker, Hector Javier Vasquez, 56, to death with an irrigation pipe on April 18 in Lamont
- The Kern County Coroner’s office determined that Vasquez had died of multiple blunt force trauma, and ruled his death a homicide
- Gutierrez-Rosales, who fled the scene of the attack, was charged with first-degree murder 10 days later on April 28
- A woman whose name is redacted from the court documents told investigators she and Gutierrez-Rosales were in a relationship for three months
- The woman said she and the suspect separated several weeks before the killing because he had anger issues
A California man has been arrested for bludgeoning his co-worker to death with an irrigation pipe because the man was having an affair with his ex-girlfriend, and colleagues had made fun of him.
Jose Gutierrez-Rosales, 49, is accused of killing his co-worker, Hector Javier Vasquez, 56, on April 18 when the pair were working at a job site near Lamont, California.
‘We were there picking up the [irrigation] pipes,’ Gutierrez-Rosales told investigators. ‘I ate about two tacos, and I felt my body like strange, and then all of a sudden, I grabbed the pipe, and I just started going at him.’
As he was beating Vasquez with the metal pipe Gutierrez-Rosales told him: ‘This is for getting involved with my family,’ Newsweek reported.
Vasquez suffered multiple facial fractures, cuts to his face, back of his head, and lost several teeth during the fatal attack, according to KGET News.
At least one witness tried to tell Gutierrez-Rosales to stop the attack, and others later told investigators they could only see him from a distance and thought that he was attacking a snake, according to reports.
The scene where Jose Gutierrez-Rosales, 49, is accused of killing his co-worker, Hector Javier Vasquez, 56, on April 18 when the pair were working at a job site, in the area of Di Giorgio Road east of Lamont, California
‘We were there picking up the [irrigation] pipes,’ Gutierrez-Rosales said. ‘I ate about two tacos, and I felt my body like strange, and then all of a sudden, I grabbed the pipe, and I just started going at him.’ As he was beating Vasquez with the metal pipe Gutierrez-Rosales uttered the words: ‘This is for getting involved with my family,’ Newsweek reported
On April 28, deputies from the Ken County Sheriff’s Department arrested Gutierrez-Rosales who had fled after the attack
Vazquez’s body was found on Di Giorgio Road by deputies later that day after witnesses reported the fatal beating to them.
The Kern County Coroner’s office determined that Vasquez had died of multiple blunt force trauma, and his death was ruled a homicide.
Gutierrez-Rosales, who had fled after the attack, was arrested 10 days later and charged with first-degree murder.
He told investigators that he was laughed at and bullied by his co-workers regarding the alleged affair claiming that he was ‘provoked.’
It’s unclear from the documents if Gutierrez-Rosales was actually married to the woman.
A woman whose name is redacted from the court documents told investigators she and Gutierrez-Rosales were in a relationship for three months, KGET News reported.
She said they had separated several weeks before the killing because he had anger issues.
Gutierrez-Rosales being held without bail. He is due back in court on June 28.
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