An expertly and socially perceived Laguna Ocean side occasion organizer, Damon Nicholson, was found dead at his condo in October 2009. He was pummeled to death and denied of costly electronic things, including a PC and a cell phone, among different possessions.
The examination that followed guided specialists to two men, Matthew Thomas Dragna and Jacob Anthony Quintanilla, who were at last captured and accused of homicide with an extraordinary situation, for pounding the life out of Nicholson with a play club prior to taking from him. Both Dragna and Quintanilla later acknowledged request bargains.
An all-new episode of Genuine Killings of Orange Area dives into Damon Nicholson’s killing this Friday, May 26, on Oxygen. The rundown for the impending episode, named Bad dream in Laguna, says:
Damon Nicholson was a famous occasion organizer and director at Lodging Laguna, known for his get-togethers and Fourth of July parties locally. He was tracked down dead by one of his associates from the lodging on October 24, 2009, who was investigating him after the 40-year-old neglected to appear at work and answer calls.
As per the OC Week after week, Nicholson’s collaborator found him slouched over with his face down on the white couch. The casualty lived alone in the two-room loft. A resulting post-mortem uncovered that he was “cudgeled to death” with a “tube shaped object,” later affirmed to be a polished ash.
2) Utilizing a gay dating wesbite, specialists connected two men to the wrongdoing Officials from the Laguna Ocean side Police Division had the option to interface two men, a 19-year-old school dropout Matthew Thomas Dragna and his 20-year-old sweetheart Jacob Anthony Quintanilla to Damon Nicholson’s homicide subsequent to cross examining various contacts from a gay dating site.
Also, specialists found Nicholson’s assets, accepted to have been taken from his home at the hour of the homicide, at Dragna’s home. A couple of the casualty’s different belongings were found in a garbage bin situated around two blocks from the suspect’s home. Different reports express that DNA proof found at the crime location demonstrated that Dragna entered the 40-year-old’s home that evening.
3) Matthew Thomas Dragna and Damon Nicholson had a s*xual experience the night prior to the homicide An observer informed specialists that he took Dragna to Nicholson’s home on October 22 for an arranged s*xual experience. That was whenever the two men first met. Then, specialists accepted, in the early morning hours on October 23, the 19-year-old got back to Nicholson’s home with his darling Jacob Anthony Quintanilla.
The two men went into the house through an opened sliding glass entryway while the occasion organizer dozed on his lounge chair. They then struck him no less than multiple times with a homerun stick toward the rear of the head and the middle, pounding his skull prior to taking a PC, telephone, and other electronic things and running away from the wrongdoing area.
4) Both Dragna and Quintanilla acknowledged supplication bargains twelve years laterDamon Nicholson's executioners dealt with twelve years after the fact (Picture by means of Heritage) As per Laguna Ocean side Free, Matthew Thomas Dragna and Jacob Anthony Quintanilla were captured in November and December of that year, separately. They were accused of homicide with an exceptional situation claim of burglary.
In 2013, Dragna was tracked down liable in a dubious preliminary, however after three years, a requests court granted him a retrial in the wake of finding that Laguna Ocean side police had disregarded his entitlement to guide by addressing him further.
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At last, after twelve years in October 2021, the two Dragna and Quintanilla acknowledged separate request bargains in Damon Nicholson’s killing. The previous conceded to intentional homicide, thievery, and three counts of attack with a deadly weapon, consenting to a condemning upgrade. He was condemned to 30 years in jail.
Quintanilla likewise conceded to deliberate homicide and thievery, getting a sentence of seven years and four months. He was given credit for the 11 years he had recently served in the slammer and needed to served no additional time.
The debut episode of Genuine Homicides of Orange Province’s season 3 airs on Oxygen this Friday.
