In a first-of-its-kind verdict in Santa Clara County, a jury has convicted two San José parents of murder in the fentanyl overdose death of their 18-month-old daughter, Winter Rayo.
Derek Vaughn Rayo and Kelly Gene Richardson were both found guilty of second-degree murder, as well as of multiple child endangerment felonies and enhancements in a San José courtroom Friday afternoon.
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The couple was the first parents in the county to ever be charged, and now convicted, with murdering their own child with drugs, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s office.
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