MADERA, CA (KMJ) – A man is convicted of murdering his estranged wife in front of her three children.
Julio Garay was arrested in July of 2020.
Madera Police say that’s when he killed his 32-year-old ex-wife, Calley Jean Garay.
On July 14, she was in Madera, getting into her van with her children when police say Garay laid in wait, then shot her outside the Camarena Healthcare clinic.
Madera Police say Garay shot her two more times as she laid across her three young children – one of them six-years-old, the others younger, as she was trying to protect them from the gunfire.
The Madera Police Department said in a statement: “Although this will never bring Calley back, we hope this will continue the healing process for Calley’s family and comfort those affected by her tragic loss,”
Julio Garay was found guilty of lying in wait, first-degree murder, assault with a semiautomatic weapon, and three counts of child abuse.
50-year-old Garay faces life in prison without the possibility of parole, when he is sentenced on November 17, 2021.
Listen to the report by KMJ’s Liz Kern:
