'Orphaned his own children': Man killed his ex-girlfriend as she tried to run away while their young kids watched because she 'pushed my buttons'

A California antheral is headed to situation for decades aft helium gunned down his ex-girlfriend successful beforehand of their 2 children, who were ages 3 and 4 astatine the time.

Romier Taguiam Narag, 30, was sentenced to 64 years to beingness down bars past week for the shooting decease of his ex-girlfriend Frances Lucero, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office. A assemblage past period recovered Narag blameworthy of first-degree murder and kid endangerment.

"The suspect has orphaned his ain children and the devastation volition past their full lives," the justice said during sentencing.

In March 2023, Narag and Lucero got into a heated statement extracurricular her location successful Daly City, conscionable extracurricular of San Francisco. Narag pulled retired a weapon and changeable Lucero respective times, including doubly successful the back, sidesplitting her. Cops arrested Narag astatine the scene.

At sentencing, the suspect apologized for his actions and said helium hated the idiosyncratic helium saw successful the mirror, but inactive placed portion of the onus connected Lucero.

"She pushed my buttons and it conscionable happened," helium stated, according to a courtroom study from section CW affiliate KRON.

Lucero's mother, Liezel Chan Lucero, is present raising the 2 children, who she said were excessively young to recognize what had happened.

"There are immoderate questions [from the children] that are similar 'Is determination a mode to get ahold of my mom?'" Liezel Lucero told local NBC affiliate KNTV past year. "Those kinds of things are truly breaking my bosom each day. Every day."

A GoFundMe relationship described Frances Lucero arsenic a "beautiful mother, daughter, sister, and person who touched countless lives of those astir her."

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"Frances dedicated her beingness to her children and ever dispersed the emotion she had to share," the GoFundMe said. "She was the astir genuine, thoughtful, loyal and ambitious pistillate we've each been blessed to know. Frances was that person that would assistance you observe bully times and supply thing but enactment during the atrocious times."