2024 March 4 - Jose Luis Cervantes Villasenor

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On March 4, 2024, just after midnight, the Sonoma County Sheriff's Office received two calls for service from La Hacienda del Toro - a restaurant and nightclub located at the intersection of Todd Road and Stony Point Road in southwest, unincorporated Santa Rosa.

In summary, the callers reported that a person (later identified as Jose Cervantes Villasenor) was in a white four-door sedan with a gun on his lap. One caller described the gun as a black handgun. The other described it as a rifle. The person with the gun reportedly threatened security personnel while brandishing the weapon.

This report includes a summary of facts surrounding the death of Mr. Cervantes Villasenor, a statement of applicable law, legal analysis and conclusions. It does not and cannot include all of the information contained in the reports and digital media reviewed in its preparation, but every effort has been made to include a summary of all relevant, material evidence gathered by the involved and investigating agencies over the course of their extensive investigation into the circumstances of Mr. Cervantes Villasenor's death.