In the '90s, a man named Jesse Laborin was killed by a gunshot wound to the head in his own vehicle while driving on either Franklin Boulevard or Sacramento Boulevard in south Sacramento. Was the killer ever identified, and if so, what became of the case?

– Curious, Sacramento

Three people were arrested and sentenced to prison in the June 29, 1990, slaying of Jessie E. Laborin Jr., 30, of West Sacramento.

According to stories in The Bee, Laborin was a passenger in a vehicle that was involved in a car chase. When a California Highway Patrol officer interrupted the chase, pulling over the vehicle in which Laborin was riding, the pursuers waited for the officer to leave, then caught up with Laborin's vehicle and shot Laborin.

The triggerman, Robert Miranda Martinez Jr., received a 16-year prison term under an agreement permitting him to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter.

The driver of the vehicle in which Martinez was riding, Edward Anthony Medina, was sentenced to 12 years in prison under a similar plea.

The back seat passenger, Debra Lee Campos, received a one-year prison term as an accessory to the crime.

Martinez reportedly had been involved in a barroom brawl with Laborin shortly before the car chase.

In 1996, a young woman was murdered by John Metcalf. What happened to him?

– Curious, Sacramento

According to a story in The Bee, John Joshua Metcalf was sentenced in February 1991 to 20 years in prison for the second-degree murder of Laura Francine Church.

Church was shot to death May 10, 1990, at a remote spot near the Sutter Bypass outside Yuba City.

Metcalf admitted shooting Church but said it was an accident. He said he had visited Church at her Yuba City apartment early that day because he was depressed.

The two drove to the remote site, where Metcalf and friends sometimes went for target practice, with the idea of shooting at rabbits, he said.

According to Metcalf's account, he was leaning into the car with a .357 Magnum pistol pointed at Church. When she tried to push the gun away, the gun bumped against the roof of the car and discharged accidentally, he said.

Now 40 years old, Metcalf is in Mule Creek State Prison in Ione.

– Cathy Locke