“I pray to God every night that you die,” Vasquez’s mother said at his sentencing.

And then to see this happen, you know, that felt like just something inside of me just died at that time, you know? Like the good in me just turned its back on me.”Ĭonvicted of two counts of second-degree murder, Castellanos was sentenced to 21 years to life. “I had never hurt no one, in fact, before. “I was raised with a religious background, you know, and I had never killed no one,” Castellanos told the board.

Vasquez, stabbed 12 times, died later that night. The 65-year-old was dead by the time police arrived. When the owner of the bar, Tito Lechuga, tried to break up the melee, Castellanos slashed his throat. “I do remember having a knife in my hand and stabbing,” he said. Castellanos recalled someone holding him in a headlock and being clubbed with a champagne bottle. “I tried to ignore them the best I can, but after a while they just got real nervy so when I passed by I yelled back, you know?”Ī fight erupted. I was already 27 years old and I didn’t play gang-banging or none of like that.”Įvery time Castellanos passed Vasquez and his friends on the way to the bar, “they yelled stuff at me,” he said. “I told them I was too old for that, you know. Mark Vasquez, 22, came up to their table and demanded to know where he was from, Castellanos recalled at a parole hearing. “You have to be able to defend yourself in prison,” he said.Ī year after getting out, Castellanos and his girlfriend decided to celebrate New Year’s Eve at the Lettuce Patch Lounge in San Bernardino.

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