By Patric Hedlund, TME

Tears and sobbing of about 30 of Benito Carrillo, Jr.’s Frazier Park family and friends filled Courtroom No. 1 in Kern County Superior Court on May 19. They were there to attend the sentencing hearing for Steve Gilmore of Lebec.

Carrillo, Jr.’s mother and sister told the judge about a loving young man who grew up in the Mountain Communities and whose father had died of a heart attack just six months before their 24 year old son and brother was killed in the brutal shooting. The cheerful…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Steve Gilmore of Lebec kept his back to the family and friends of Benito Carrillo, Jr. during the sentencing hearing. Here, Deputy District Attorney Andrea Kohler asks the judge to give the maximum prison term allowable for Gilmore’s killing of the 24 year old Frazier Park man.

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