Man Sentenced To 21 Years For Decade-Old Murder of Girlfriend In Motel Off Hwy 101

NORTH BAY, CA – A former San Rafael man was sentenced to 21 years in prison today for the shooting death of his former girlfriend in a San Rafael hotel room in 2005.

Francisco Carrillo-Perez, now 50, pleaded guilty to the voluntary manslaughter of 25-year-old Ana Mejia on June 25, 2005, in the San Rafael Inn as part of a plea agreement.

The sentence includes 10 years in prison for use of a firearm, Marin County Assistant District Attorney Barry Borden said. Carrillo-Perez waived credits for the time he served in the Marin County Jail as part of the
sentencing agreement.

Mejia was the mother of the couple's four children. She was reported missing on June 25, 2005, when she did not report to work or answer her phone, San Rafael police said.

Police found her car in the parking lot of the motel at 865 E. Francisco Blvd. and her body inside the inn.

The couple's relationship in Southern California was volatile, and there were domestic violence incidents, police said in 2005. Mejia and the children left Southern California and moved to San Rafael, according to
police.

When Carrillo-Perez went to visit the children in San Rafael in 2005, Mejia agreed to meet with him, police said. She was never seen alive again.

Police learned that Carrillo-Perez fled to his native Guatemala. He was arrested there in December 2014 and extradited to the United States.

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--Bay City News/Photo courtesy of San Rafael Police Department