A 44-year-old man pleaded guilty Tuesday and was sentenced to 28 years to life in prison for gunning down an Iraq War veteran from Escondido whose body was found wrapped in a tarp inside the truck of an abandoned Lexus in Anaheim.
Martin Lopez Torres pleaded guilty to murder with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a gun in Santa Ana Superior Court in Orange County. As part of the plea deal, a sentencing enhancement for the discharge of a gun causing death was dismissed.
Torres has been in custody since Feb. 2, 2020.
Torres pleaded guilty to killing 34-year-old Adrian Darren Bonar of Escondido on Oct. 4, 2019.
Co-defendants Antonio Silva Lopez and Nicolas Colunga are awaiting trial.
Bonar’s body was found in the truck of a Lexus discovered abandoned on Oct. 17, 2019, on Santa Ana Canyon Road west of Gypsum Canyon Road.
Bonar served in the U.S. Army from 2005 through 2009, when he was honorably discharged. He saw combat in Iraq, police said.
