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DUBLIN \u2014 The father of a teen who died on a San Jose freeway has been convicted of murdering the man whose son he blamed for the deadly crash.<\/p>\n

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Louie Sixto Lopez, 56, of Vancouver, Washington, now faces 50 years to life in prison after jurors found him guilty of first degree murder with a gun enhancement. Prosecutors described the Dec. 2, 2022 killing as a vengeance plot by a man heartbroken over his daughter\u2019s death, who brought a gun with him to settle the score.<\/p>\n

Lopez was represented by Chief Public Defender Brendon Woods, who argued jurors should be debating involuntary manslaughter, not murder. Lopez testified during trial that the shooting was accidental, the result of a struggle over the gun, and that he was simply searching for answers to his daughter\u2019s death.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe respect the jury\u2019s decision, but we are very disappointed with the outcome,\u201d Woods said in a recent statement.\u201d Two families have suffered unimaginable tragedies, and we continue to believe that Mr. Lopez did not intend to kill Mr. Cantu.<\/p>\n

The victim, 40-year-old Reynaldo Cantu, was killed in front of his home on Sunset Avenue. Video from a surveillance camera shows Lopez walk up, order him out of a parked car at gunpoint, and tell Cantu to come with him. There were two shots, one that Cantu initially survived \u2014 as evidenced by his screaming in pain \u2014 and a second that went through his head and killed him. His wife discovered Cantu, dead, just seconds after the shooting, as Lopez was leaving the area.<\/p>\n

Deputy District Attorney Ted McGarvey said there was \u201cunequivocal, overwhelming\u201d evidence of premeditated murder and offered jurors two ways to get there: either viewing the shooting itself in isolation, or Lopez\u2019s decision to bring what McGarvey called a \u201ckidnapping\u201d kit in his car, parked two blocks away. The bag contained rope and zip ties. Woods said the police were exaggerating it and that Lopez didn\u2019t even know who Cantu was when he approached the home.<\/p>\n

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The tragic series of events started two months earlier. Danielle Lopez, Louie\u2019s 16-year-old daughter, was killed Oct. 2, 2022 on Interstate 680 in San Jose. Her boyfriend told police that they were arguing and she got out of the car on Interstate 680 in San Jose, only to be struck by multiple cars. Lopez\u2019s family didn\u2019t buy the story and blamed her boyfriend.<\/p>\n

Louie Lopez, a San Jose native, returned to the Bay Area to bury his daughter, then came back a second time to find out more about what happened to her. Two months after she was killed he headed to the Cantu family home with a gun. The entire interaction between the two fathers lasted only a few seconds. A large group of both families attended the trial, which lasted about a week. Jurors deliberated less than a full day before reaching the verdict.<\/p>\n

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The circumstances surrounding Danielle\u2019s death continue to be an open question. Her boyfriend was never charged, though he was sentenced to probation for battering a police officer about five weeks after Danielle was killed. He remained in jail with that case pending when Cantu was murdered.<\/p>\n

Woods said in a statement his office hopes the case, \u201cbrings greater attention to the circumstances surrounding the death of Mr. Lopez\u2019s daughter, Danielle, and that his family may someday receive answers and justice.\u201d<\/p>\n

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