REDWOOD CITY — A 29-year-old Redwood City man was sentenced Tuesday to 20 years in state prison for assaulting and carjacking his ex-girlfriend in 2022, prosecutors said.
Sergio Hurtado Dominguez pleaded no contest in May to felony domestic violence and felony carjacking, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
Dominguez and the victim started dating in November 2021, but she ended the relationship prior to the incident on Jan. 26, 2022, prosecutors said. In the weeks leading up to that date, Dominguez reportedly sent the victim threatening texts, telling her in one that he was going to split her head open and kill her the next time he saw her.
The victim was parked outside a taqueria around 10:45 p.m. when Dominguez pulled her out of her car, dragged her to his home just around the corner, hit her 20 times in the face and told her he was going to kill her, according to the district attorney’s office.
Prosecutors said Dominguez also choked the victim until she nearly lost consciousness.
Dominguez took the victim’s cell phone and keys and drove away in her car as she screamed for help, according to the district attorney’s office. San Mateo County sheriff’s deputies arrived to find the victim bleeding profusely from her nose and mouth.
California Highway Patrol officers stopped Dominguez in Monterey County and arrested him. Prosecutors said he was still holding the victim’s cell phone and had blood on his clothes.
Dominguez was sentenced to nine years for the carjacking and one year for the domestic violence, but the sentence was doubled because he had a prior strike conviction.
In addition to the prison term, Dominguez was ordered to have no contact with the victim for 10 years.