Anthony Rauda was found guilty in May of second-degree murder for the 2018 killing of research scientist Tristan Beaudette in Malibu Creek State Park.
Sentencing is set Wednesday for a man convicted of fatally shooting a research scientist as he slept inside a tent with his two young daughters in Malibu Creek State Park.
Rauda had waived his right to be present in the courtroom during the trial, but is expected to be on hand for the sentencing.Outside the jury's presence, he was brought into court in a restraint chair and wearing a spit hood over his head. Nistorescu said the defendant finally "managed to do what he had persistently" been trying to do when he killed Beaudette as he was sleeping next to his daughters. Beaudette's youngest daughter's leggings were covered in her father's blood when she knelt next to him after the shooting, the prosecutor said.
He noted that DNA testing done on cigarette butts found near where authorities believe the gunman shot at Beaudette's tent showed that the DNA came from an as-yet unidentified male and that it does not match his client's DNA. During the trial, Beaudette's brother-in-law, who was camping in a tent nearby, testified that he heard loud popping sounds and one of the victim's children crying, and found the man dead as his two daughters kneeled next to him in a pool of blood.
McCurdy said he tried to verbally comfort the girls while trying to rouse his brother-in-law from sleep and turned on his brother-in-law's phone after noticing that his own hand felt slippery.
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