The boyfriend of a woman found in February of 2018 with a gunshot wound to the head in Half Moon Bay was sentenced to three years in state prison Friday months after he pleaded no contest to possession of cocaine and other drugs for sale in December, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
Tristan Cecil, 22, had been transferred to San Quentin State Prison for a 90-day diagnostic study after he pleaded to two sets of drug charges Dec. 10. Cecil was found with 1,450 separately-packaged Xanax pills, 33 grams of cocaine and 33 grams of ethylpentylone packaged into 29 baggies in July while he was out of custody on another set of drug charges related to a February of 2018 search of his home, according to prosecutors.
Believed to have reported the Feb. 22, 2018, shooting of his 18-year-old girlfriend, Kimberly Quiroz, Cecil was found in possession of thousands of Xanax pills, hundreds of Adderall pills, 7 ounces of cocaine, 861 grams of illegal mushrooms and 201 ounces of marijuana along with four digital scales, $1,508 in cash, brass knuckles and sales records after a narcotics task force and Redwood City police officers conducted a search of his home on the 200 block of Poplar Street later that day, according to prosecutors.
Found with a single gunshot wound to her head when deputies responded to Cecil’s home on Poplar Street at about 5 a.m. Feb. 22, Quiroz spent days before her death in critical condition after being taken by medical helicopter to a nearby hospital, sheriff’s officials said previously.
Alongside two sets of drug possession charges, Cecil previously faced charges of felony threats for allegedly telling a man he tailgated and passed on the shoulder of Highway 1 that he would stab him before side-swiping his car in the parking lot of a Half Moon Bay Burger King May 15. In an unrelated incident July 8, he allegedly yelled at a man who was walking past his home with a friend and later came out with a black Glock handgun and pointed it at the man after he said he didn’t know Cecil and didn’t want to know him. Cecil is also believed to have shattered the driver’s seat window of his girlfriend’s car June 24 by kicking the car door several times while she was sitting in the driver’s seat, according to prosecutors.
District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe said previously judges may opt to send defendants to prison to do a diagnostic study if they are weighing whether to sentence them to state prison or keep them on probation. Judge Stephanie Garratt denied Cecil probation and sentenced him to three years in state prison Friday. Cecil will receive 397 days credit for time served, according to prosecutors.
Cecil’s defense attorney Jeff Hayden could not be immediately reached for comment.
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Something major missing here? Who shot the woman who was killed?
Very troubled young man. Hope he receives some serious treatment for his drug abuse. If not his future is hopeless
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