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Santa Barbara County Man Gets Long Prison Term For Murder Of Girlfriend

A Santa Barbara County man has been sentenced to 31 years to life in prison for stabbing to death his girlfriend.

Prosecutors say William Manuel Delgado pled guilty to a second degree murder charge, and other related counts for the January, 2017 murder of Raneae Ronquillo in their Lompoc home.

Delgado had been convicted of a domestic violence incident in 2014 in Riverside County, in which the same woman was the victim.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.