Redondo Man Faces Life in Prison for Grisly South Bay Murders

A man convicted of murdering his girlfriend and her mother in their Redondo Beach apartment just over three years ago is scheduled to be sentenced today.

Jonathan Scott Chacon, 26, is facing life in prison without the possibility of parole for the Feb. 28, 2012, killings of his girlfriend, 19- year-old Courtney Bergman, and her 59-year-old mother, Vicki Bergman. Chacon was arrested the next day in Mexico.

Jurors deliberated for more than two hours before finding Chacon guilty April 9 of two counts of first-degree murder. The panel also found true the special circumstance allegation of multiple murders, along with an allegation that he personally used a knife during the crime.

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.

But 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.

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