A man known only as “Ace” killed cheer coach ex-girlfriend as she was driving with a ghost gun 

CALIFORNIA: Days after confiding that she was cutting off all communication with him, a California man has admitted to shooting and killing his ex-girlfriend, who was discovered critically injured in a crashed automobile.

Faith Elizabeth Valenzuela, 29, died last Wednesday, and Jacob Anthony Bustamantez, 24, entered a guilty plea to second-degree murder, according to a press statement issued by the district attorney for Monterey County, Jeannine M. Pacioni.

Ghost gun was found

Prosecutors said that on July 5, 2022, at 2:53 a.m., Bustamantez—who was supposedly known as “Ace” on Valenzuela’s phone—text her asking to be picked up for a ride, setting off the events that would lead to the carnage. Over a hundred miles south of San Francisco, she picked him up in the vicinity of Salinas’ downtown.

Bustamantez shot her from the passenger seat of the car seventeen minutes after he had initially contacted her about the journey. He was using a 9 mm semiautomatic ghost gun. The vehicle struck a wooden fence that was behind a house. According to officials, Bustamantez ran away, leaving behind the gun, a magazine containing ammunition, and a pair of cotton gloves.

A police squad car was leaving a hospital when it discovered the single-car crash on Natividad Road and Lunsford Drive, five minutes later. According to a news statement from the police, they discovered an unconscious Valenzuela with gunshot wounds slumped over the front of the automobile. An hour later, she passed away in a hospital.

35 years of imprisonment

Prosecutors referenced witnesses in the DA’s news release, stating that they knew Valenzuela had kept in touch with the defendant and that, in the final days before her death, she had expressed to others her desire to cut off all communication with him. Two days after the gunshot, Bustamantez was taken into custody.

Before eventually confessing to shooting and killing Valenzuela, he allegedly denied ever having communication with her. According to her GoFundMe page, the Everett Alvarez High School cheerleading instructor leaves behind a 10-year-old daughter.

The website stated, “Faith’s kind heart and bright smile will be missed dearly.” “We have set up this account to help raise funds so that Faith’s daughter and her family can carry on in her mother’s spirit.” When Bustamantez is sentenced on October 2, he could spend 35 years to life behind bars.