SANTA ANA—A 45-year-old Lake Forest man is behind bars on a murder charge for allegedly beating his longtime spouse to death with a tire iron as she was arriving for work as a family’s nanny in Irvine, prosecutors said March 23.
Omar Velazquezhuar is charged with murder a special circumstances allegation of lying in wait, which makes him eligible for the death penalty or at least life in prison without the possibility of parole if convicted at trial.
