A Southern California man pleaded guilty to a series of violent crimes including murder, robbery, sodomy of a minor and more.

Jacob Saldivar, 23, of Oxnard, committed the crimes in Ventura County from April to June 2019, beginning when he was 16 years old, according to the Ventura County District Attorney’s Office.

On June 24, 2019, Saldivar fatally stabbed a man, Charles Barber, in Oxnard. The two were walking to the parking area of an apartment complex when Saldivar became angry and attacked Barber with a knife, prosecutors said.

“Barber collapsed inside the complex and subsequently died from multiple stab wounds, including one that penetrated his brain,” court documents said.

Just hours after Barber’s murder, Saldivar robbed a 75-year-old man in a Home Depot parking lot, violently y

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