{"id":440355,"date":"2010-03-17T10:48:40","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T14:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a948b49f970b"},"modified":"2010-03-17T10:48:40","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T14:48:40","slug":"woman-describes-attack-at-same-lake-where-chelsea-king-was-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/440355","title":{"rendered":"Woman describes attack at same lake where Chelsea King was killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman broke her silence to describe being attacked at the same San Diego County lake where Chelsea King was slain, allegedly by a registered sex offender.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities suspect Candice Moncayo was attacked by John Gardner, who has pleaded not guilty to killing King in February.<\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/video\/#\/video\/bestoftv\/2010\/03\/16\/lkl.attack.story.cnn\">an interview<\/a> on CNN, Moncayo said she was attacked while jogging around the lake. She said she was able to fight him off and run to a nearby home, where she called authorities.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;He grabbed his face and turned away from me and yelled some things,<br \/>\nand I got up and ran faster than I think I ever ran in my life,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Moncayo said she will testify in Gardner&#8217;s upcoming murder trial.<\/p>\n<p>Gardner, 30, was charged earlier this month and<br \/>\nfaces the death penalty if convicted of murder. Authorities said DNA<br \/>\nfrom semen found on Chelsea&#8217;s clothing linked him to the crime. <\/p>\n<p>Gardner, 6-feet-2 and<br \/>\nweighing 230 pounds, pleaded guilty in 2000 to molesting a<br \/>\n13-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p> A psychiatrist at the time recommended that<br \/>\nGardner be given the maximum sentence of at least 10 years in prison. &quot;It is my opinion<br \/>\nthat [the defendant] would be a continued danger to underage [girls] in<br \/>\nthe community,&quot; said the psychiatrist in the court documents. San<br \/>\nDiego County prosecutors recommended a six-year term.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Megan&#8217;s Law website, Gardner lived in Lake<br \/>\nElsinore, in Riverside County, but was visiting his mother in San Diego<br \/>\nCounty when the attack occurred. <\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Shelby Grad<\/p>\n<p><strong>More breaking news at L.A. 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Authorities suspect Candice Moncayo was attacked by John Gardner, who has pleaded not guilty to killing King in February. In an interview on CNN, Moncayo said she was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-440355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}