Overview

• A Placer County jury returned guilty verdicts for first-degree murder, attempted murder and first-degree burglary after a six-week trial and under two days of deliberations.
• Prosecutors presented surveillance footage showing a hooded figure entering the Lake Tahoe home and evidence that Serafini waited inside with a .22-caliber handgun before opening fire.
• Text messages and testimony linked the attack to a $1.3 million dispute over a ranch renovation and an inheritance clause.
• Accomplice Samantha Scott, who pleaded guilty to being an accessory, testified that she drove Serafini to the home and saw him wearing clothing matching the surveillance images.
• Serafini remains jailed without bail following the verdict.