PLEASANTON — A woman who fatally shot a Home Depot loss prevention officer a year ago has reached a plea deal with prosecutors on a charge of second-degree murder, resulting in a negotiated sentence of 19 years to life in state prison, authorities said.
Her accomplice reached a deal that will send him to prison for more than seven years.
Benicia Knapps, 33, had been charged with murder, armed robbery, child endangerment and being a felon in possession of a firearm in the April 18, 2023, death of Blake Mohs, 26. The deal was announced Tuesday in a news release from Alameda County District Attorney Pamela Price.
Knapps pleaded no contest and was convicted Monday of a second-degree murder charge with a gun enhancement that included the negotiated sentence of 19 years to life in state prison.
Her co-defendant, David Guillory, 32, had been charged with evading police, resisting arrest, accessory to robbery and child endangerment. He pleaded no contest and was convicted of child abuse, accessory to a robbery and evading an officer, and will receive 7 years and 4 months in prison.
Mohs, who was planning to be married in the summer of 2023, was working as a loss prevention officer at the Home Depot store at 6000 Johnson Drive. He confronted Knapps, who had taken a tool storage box without paying, and was shot in the chest, according to court records.