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DEFENDANT NAME HEARING CASE COURT PROSECUTOR UNIT Charge(s) TYPE NUMBER CASTANEDA, ZACHARY 11/03/20, C35, 9:00 PRELIMIN HEATHER HOMICIDE 19CF2198 A 33-year-old documented gang member with an A.M. ARY BROWN extensive criminal history is facing 11 felonies in HEARING connection with an hours-long stabbing spree that left four people dead and two others severely injured. Several businesses were also robbed during the August 7th attack. Zachary Castaneda, 33, of Garden Grove was arrested by undercover Garden Grove police officers on Wednesday, August 7, 2019, after stabbing a total of four people to death and attacking two more in an assault that spanned two cities and more than 2 ½ hours. During the attack that targeted victims at random, Castaneda repeatedly stabbed a convenience store security guard and then used the knife to cut the security guard’s gun from his gun belt, leaving him to die. Castaneda has been charged with four felony counts of murder, one felony count of attempted murder with premeditation and deliberation, one felony count of assault with a deadly weapon to cause great bodily injury, one felony count of aggravated mayhem, one felony count of first degree residential burglary, and three felony counts of second degree robbery. He is also charged with enhancements for multiple murders, murder during a robbery, three enhancements for committing additional crimes while out on bail on three separate criminal cases, having committed a prior serious and violent felony, having committed a prior serious felony, and committing a felony within five years of having spent more than a year in state prison.
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