Corona Man, 29, Gets Life Behind Bars For Fatally Shooting Ex-Girlfriend
SAN FERNANDO (CBS) — A Corona man was sentenced Friday to multiple life sentences for kidnapping and fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend, a mother of five, in Panorama City two years ago.
Jasper Stallings, 29, pleaded no contest in June to murder, kidnapping to commit another crime, kidnapping for carjacking, carjacking with use of a gun, second-degree robbery, making criminal threats, kidnapping and evading, along with misdemeanor hit-and-run.
After the shooting, Stallings led police on a one-hour three county chase.
Stallings was sentenced to multiple life sentences by San Fernando Superior Court Judge Daniel Feldstern and will have to serve 127 years before being eligible for parole, according to Deputy District Attorney William Chung said.
On May 13, 2009, Stallings carjacked the driver of a red Dodge Ram pickup truck at gunpoint in the San Fernando Valley, near Tujunga, then drove the man to Arrowhead, where he was robbed at gunpoint and left by the side of the road.
Stallings then drove back to Panorama City, where he kidnapped his 27-year-old ex-girlfriend -- identified as Erika B. -- and forced her into the stolen truck near Van Nuys and Roscoe Boulevards, prosecutors said.
As she tried to jump out, he shot her. Stallings got out of the truck, shot her again and drove away. She died during surgery at a local hospital.
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