[LSDailyNews] Local business owner pleads guilty to murder, sentenced to 8 years

[Los Santos Daily News]

NEWS • Crime

Written by Yunisa DELGADO-FLORES • June 25th, 2022 — 7:20PM

Local business owner pleads guilty to murder, sentenced to 8 years

 

Harlee Soho, the owner of the Stooges punk-themed bar in Little Seoul, pleaded guilty to the murder of Samantha Baker as well as possession of an unlicensed firearm.

 

Sunshine Apartments, deputies preparing to enter and search. Onlookers watching. — Yunisa Delgado-Flores, June 24th 2022

 

 

On June the 22^nd, at 11:16PM, Judge Jacqueline Keating sentenced Harlee Soho, 23, for 8 years imprisonment, the minimum for first degree murder, for the murder of Samantha Baker, 21, as well as the possession of an unlicensed firearm following their guilty plea in Los Santos County's Superior Court.

 

Stooges, the bar that Harlee owned, is a punk-themed bar located within Little Seoul. Locals have complained to the Daily prior about the attraction of drunken violence and skinheads the business brought to the district.

 

Throughout the month of May, it faced multiple accounts of vandalism and graffiti. On May the 20^th, the business faced a fire that led to the temporary closure of the business. The source of the fire has not been disclosed.

 

The Los Santos Fire Department wrote in a press release that the fire was classed as commercial due to the size and nature of the fire. The press release noted that "flames protruded from the interior" and, due to the fire starting as the business was closed, there were no casualties.

 

The State Fire Marshal proceeded to investigate the cause of the fire however has not publicly disclosed the source of the fire as of yet. The Daily News reached out to the Fire Marshals on June the 21^st and has yet to receive a response.

 

The business recovered from the fire and proceeded to open throughout the first half of June. Since the arrest, charge, and sentence of Soho however, the business has remained closed.

 

There has been criticism against judge Keating and the District Attorney's office following this trial by a few members of the public. The criticism comes from the sentence of eight years following first degree murder. Online, a series of comments by local resident "Theo Pow" expressed their frustration at the sentence. One of which read that "Harlee Soho will be out of jail before she even reaches the end of young adulthood. How is this justice?"

 

"Sentence rendered this morning. They seem to agree with the DA's Office that a sentence of eight years is somehow justice enough against someone that has taken a young woman, permanently, from their family - with a premeditated plot.

Harlee Soho will be out of jail before she even reaches the end of young adulthood. How is this justice?"

 

The Los Santos County District Attorney Office's Diana Morales, the prosecutor who filed the charges against Soho, refused to provide a comment when the Daily reached out for details surrounding this case.

 

The Daily News wrote to Harlee Soho on June the 22^nd. We have yet to receive a response.

 

Samantha Baker, the person Harlee pleaded guilty to murdering, was said to have close ties with the business. The motive for the murder has not been disclosed.

 

 

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Edited June 25, 2022 by Los Santos Daily News

[Mescalero]

Username: koreatownhero

Comment: 8 years for first degree murder??? what thell!!!

Edited June 25, 2022 by Mescalero

[joshua]

Username: TrueAmerican

Comment: EIGHT years for FIRST DEGREE MURDER? A pre-meditated KILLING? Our justice system is a fucking joke. I've seen people face more time on drug charges. Where's the press release from the DA on this one? He's quick to speak up with just about everything else. Someone do us a favor and finish her off in jail before she gets out.

[Halloween]

Username: DeadEndBrigadeJojo
Comment: LOL let her rot in there, dude. our justice system sucks.

[L I C E]

Username: vegan69
Comment: tragic. if that was my daughter who'd been taken from me and the one responsible only got 8 years i'd make it my life's mission to send them to meet their maker. what an awful waste of life.

[TEO]

Username: fengshui213

Comment: lol i saw her bar get raided!!

[Montana Fats]

Username: Rexalicious

Comment: lol i use to do drugs with both of them. sam was a dumb cunt anyways. rip in piss bozo.

[Bubonic]

Username: DeeBag_

Comment: Pre-meditated murder of a young woman, bitch is clearly crazy. Lock her up and throw away the key, not just let her out after 8. Probably even less on "good behavior" terms. 

[Sitra]

4 hours ago, joshua said:

Username: TrueAmerican

Comment: EIGHT years for FIRST DEGREE MURDER? A pre-meditated KILLING? Our justice system is a fucking joke. I've seen people face more time on drug charges. Where's the press release from the DA on this one? He's quick to speak up with just about everything else. Someone do us a favor and finish her off in jail before she gets out.

 

Username: Nyx

Comment: Snitches get lower sentences. Bet she spilled all her beans - gonna spill her guts on concrete in a matter of time, too.

Edited June 26, 2022 by Sitra

[Bandit.]

Username: 14Will88

Comment: Where's the mugshot I wanna see what this monster looks like...