Killer Gets Double Life Sentences for Double Murders

A man who knifed his girlfriend and her mother to death in their Redondo Beach apartment three years ago was sentenced today to two consecutive terms of life in prison without the possibility of parole.

Judge Steven Van Sicklen handed down the sentence to 26-year-old Jonathan Scott Chacon, who was convicted by a jury April 9 of two counts of first-degree murder in deaths of 19-year-old Courtney Bergman and her 59-year- old mother, Vicki Bergman.

The panel also found true the special circumstance allegation of multiple murders.

Van Sicklen added an extra two years to Chacon’s sentence for using a knife in the deadly attacks.

Chacon slit the throats of his girlfriend and her mother inside the apartment in the 1900 block of Rockefeller Lane. Prosecutors suggested he killed the pair because he was jealous of his girlfriend’s contacts with another man.

Chacon insisted the killings were in self-defense, alleging that his girlfriend attacked him with a knife shortly after they had sex in the apartment. He contended that her mother came out of her room during that time.

City News Service

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