TEMECULA, CA β A probationer who killed his one-time "sugar girl" and her boyfriend at his Temecula home during an altercation over their occupancy of the property was convicted Thursday of two counts of first-degree murder and other offenses.
A Murrieta jury deliberated just over a day before finding year-old David Alan Floyd of Temecula guilty of killing Angel Ponce of Escondido and Danielle Ricker of Temecula, both 31, earlier this year. In addition to the murder counts, jurors found true a special circumstance allegation of taking multiple lives, as well as convicting Floyd of being a probationer in possession of a firearm and violating a domestic violence restraining order, with sentence-enhancing gun and great bodily injury allegations.
The defendant is expected to receive life in prison without the possibility of parole. Floyd was arrested at the end of February following a sheriff's department investigation into the killings, which occurred in late January.
According to a trial brief filed by the prosecution, Floyd had been at odds with Ricker since , long after she had established residency in his single-story house at Galleron St. In a March interview with sheriff's detectives, Floyd "stated that he had met Danielle 10 years before, and she had become his 'sugar girl,"' the brief stated. The situation created conflicts, including two separate instances in during which Floyd became physical with Ricker, prompting her to call According to court papers, Floyd was ultimately charged with battery on a domestic partner, and Ricker obtained a domestic violence restraining order against him, granting her space within his residence, with the seemingly impractical arrangement that he avoid contact with her.
On Jan. He loaded the bodies into his Porsche and drove east toward the unincorporated community of Sage, dumping the remains in the area of Sage and Voyager roads, prosecutors said.
