Man Found Guilty of Fatally Stabbing Brother
Man Found Guilty of Fatally Stabbing Brother
by Contributing Editor
A 38-year-old man who fatally stabbed his older brother during an unprovoked attack at their family home near Hemet was convicted Friday of first-degree murder.
An Indio jury deliberated two days before finding Timothy Anthony Condoluci of Hemet guilty of the 2019 slaying of 41-year-old Michael W. Condoluci, also of Hemet.
Along with the murder count, jurors also convicted the defendant of a sentence-enhancing allegation of using a deadly weapon — a knife — in the commission of a felony.
He could receive 26 years to life in state prison when he’s sentenced by Riverside County Superior Court Judge Mickie Reed on Oct. 23 at the Larson Justice Center.
Condoluci is being held without bail at the Byrd Detention Center in Murrieta.
He attacked his brother on the night of July 10, 2019, behind their family’s house at 26740 Green Avenue, just south of Highway 74, in a community just east of Hemet known as Green Acres.
According to a trial brief filed by Deputy District Attorney Josh DeGonia, the two brothers had been at odds on numerous occasions, and family members consistently pointed to the defendant as the aggressor.
Three months before the deadly attack, Condoluci had threatened to stab his brother in the neck, prompting the victim and his mother to file a restraining order against him, DeGonia said.
For reasons unclear, Condoluci confronted the victim and told him that he intended to kill him as the two faced one another adjacent to the residence, according to court papers.
Without warning, the defendant pulled a hunting knife and plunged it into the victim’s right armpit, then turned and ran, prosecutors said. Michael Condoluci managed to stumble to the front porch of the house, where he collapsed, prompting immediate calls to 911, according to the brief.
A deputy who had worked as an emergency medical technician was the first to reach the location and found the victim bleeding profusely and losing consciousness.
“The victim told (the deputy) that the defendant said, `He wanted to kill me,”’ according to the brief.
The deputy managed to stabilize the mortally wounded man, who was taken to Riverside University Medical Center in Moreno Valley, where he went into cardiac arrest and died four hours later on the operating table, according to court papers.
A K9 unit picked up Condoluci’s trail, and the defendant was located and taken into custody without incident near the house. According to the brief, he made several spontaneous statements concerning the need to defend himself, even suggesting that his older brother had been armed with a handgun, which was never corroborated.
When a Central Homicide Unit detective spoke with the men’s uncle, he told him that a “long-standing feud” had resulted in repeated physical altercations between the brothers, with Michael Condoluci having to fend off his younger sibling, whom the uncle described as “exhausting” to deal with, the brief stated.
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