SANTA ANA, Calif.—A 44-year-old man was convicted Oct. 12 of strangling and stabbing his girlfriend to death with a screwdriver in their Santa Ana apartment nearly five years ago.
Prentis John Hill was convicted of second-degree murder with a sentencing enhancement for the personal use of a deadly weapon. Hill is scheduled to be sentenced Oct. 28.
Hill was convicted of killing 38-year-old Shannon Pearce Likens on Dec. 16, 2017, in their one-room apartment at 316 W. Fourth Street.
Likens, a divorced mother of three children, had met Hill while they were patients at College Hospital Costa Mesa, said Senior Deputy District Attorney Mark Birney. They both had a history of mental health issues, he added….