Elk Grove man convicted of murdering his parents for financial gain

An Elk Grove man was found guilty in the 2024 murder of his parents so that he could receive an inheritance from them, prosecutors said on Monday.A jury convicted 46-year-old Mark Andre Tomas Navarrete on Friday of two counts of first-degree murder, also finding true that he committed multiple murders and that the murders were committed for financial gain, according to a press release from the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office. On June 28, 2024, Elk Grove police officers responded to a home on Crosscourt Way and found 73-year-old Augusto Tacsuan Navarette and 70-year-old Marjorie Jane Tomas Navarette dead inside the residence. The DA's Office said Navarette had killed both of them inside the garage; hitting both of them with an object and then strangling them.Mark Andre Tomas Navarrete Sacramento County Sheriff's Office According to prosecutors, Navarrete later that morning sent a text to his deceased parents asking the