‘Their skin melting’: Man gets life for cartel-linked murders of 4 men, recorded 1 victim’s dying breaths

Three bodies were found in a burning SUV in Orange, California, in 2015, and a man convicted in the killings has been sentenced in the case (KABC).

Three bodies were found in a burning SUV in Orange, California, in 2015, and a man convicted in the killings has been sentenced in the case (KABC).

An Arizona man will spend the rest of his life in prison for the murders of four men, three of whom were found in a smoldering SUV in a California neighborhood in broad daylight and a fourth shot in his own car miles away, in a Mexican drug cartel-linked bloodbath.

Raul Gastellum Flores, 33, learned his fate on Wednesday in Orange County, California, for the murders of Fernando Meza, 20, Antonio Medina, 19, and brothers Edgar Berrelleza, 26, and Joel Berrelleza, 35, prosecutors announced in a news release.

Flores was convicted in April of four felony counts of first-degree murder, four special circumstances of murder during the commission of a robbery, and four special circumstances of multiple murders, authorities said.

During the trial, Orange County Senior Deputy District Attorney Harris Siddiq described the carnage that day in November 2015 as one of the victims was burned alive in the torched GMC Yukon.

“Their skin melting … in the middle of the day in front of a high school,” Siddiq said of the victims, City News Service reported. “This was a plan carried out by people motivated by greed and a thirst for power.”

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