LOS ANGELES—A man who fatally shot a research scientist as he slept inside a tent with his two young daughters in Malibu Creek State Park was convicted May 26 of second-degree murder and other counts.
Anthony Rauda, 46, who some dubbed the “Malibu Sniper” when authorities accused him of involvement in multiple shootings in or near the park, was also convicted of three counts of attempted murder and five counts of second-degree commercial burglary.
The jury acquitted him of seven other attempted-murder charges.
Prosecutors had been seeking a first-degree murder conviction for the June 22, 2018, killing of Tristan Beaudette as he camped with his daughters, but jurors convicted Rauda instead of the lesser charge of second-degree murder. Two of the three attempted murder counts for which Rauda was convicted involved Beaudette’s daughters….