FILE - Ramon Alberto Escobar, with an unidentified attorney, appears at a hearing in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Sept. 26, 2018. Escobar who pleaded guilty to a series of Southern California attacks that killed five men and injured seven others was sentenced Friday, May 6, 2022, to life in prison without possibility of parole. Ramon Escobar, 50, received multiple life sentences after entering guilty pleas to murder with special circumstances and attempted murder. (AP Photo Damian Dovarganes, File)