DUBLIN — A Hayward man was given life, but with a chance for parole, for fatally stabbing a father and son at a raucous house party with drinking, sex, and ultimately a double murder.
Oscar Josue Arevalo-Baquiax, 24, was sentenced to 32 years to life and then transferred to North Kern State Prison on May 13, records show. He was convicted in January of murdering 49-year-old Rigoberto Perez Sr. and 22-year-old Rigoberto Perez Jr., both of Hayward at a Sept. 24-25, 2022 house party where everyone — including the suspect and victim — started off as friends.
At some part in the night of Sept. 24, Arevalo-Baquiax and a female friend had sex in a bedroom during the party, which was held at a home on the 100 block of Lund Avenue. Arevalo-Baquiax left the bedroom but returned to allegedly find Perez Jr. with his pants down, touching the woman’s leg. This started a fight that led to Arevalo-Baquiax and the woman being kicked off the premises.
But Arevalo-Baquiax got a knife, returned, and then stabbed Perez Jr. and his father. Afterwards he walked back to the woman who asked why he was “covered in blood.” He told her he’d just stabbed both victims, prosecutors said in court records.
Arevalo-Baquiax’s lawyer, who referred to Arevalo-Baquiax by his middle name, said in court records that some leniency was in order due to Arevalo-Baquiax’s young age at the time — 21 — as well as his drunkenness and the stressful state he was in. He said Arevalo-Baquiax plans to study constitutional law in prison and reflect on what happened.
“The evidence showed that Josue stabbed two individuals quickly, impulsively, and ended abruptly with testimony indicating that Josue left the scene clearly not knowing the condition of the two victims when he left,” Deputy Public Defender George Arroyo wrote in court filings.
Prosecutors wrote in a sentencing memo that while Arevalo-Baquiax confessed to police, he later tried to walk back his confession at trial and dodge responsibility.
“Defendant took the stand and said that Junior and Senior were already stabbed when he returned to the apartment,” Deputy District Attorney Mark Bennett wrote in the memo. “He attempted to explain his confession and his intricate knowledge of what occurred as him being confused and having read newspaper article about the stabbing earlier that day.”
Arroyo countered that Arevalo-Baquiax is still coping with accepting that he killed two people and that he testified he confessed because he believed he “might” have done it.
The sentence is the maximum for the two counts of second degree murder, along with use of a knife. Arevalo-Baquiax receives credit for the time he spent in jail while awaiting a resolution in his case, which with credit for time served amounted to about three years, court records show.
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