70-year prison sentence in homeless camp murder
By Andy Furillo, Sacramento Bee
A 42-year-old transient who shot and killed a man in a Placerville homeless camp has been sentenced to 70 years to life in prison, the El Dorado County District Attorney’s Office said in a press release.
Kenneth Sharonoff had been convicted of second-degree murder in the Jan. 23 killing of Clark “Otto” McCabe, 69, on Missouri Flat Road. An El Dorado County Superior Court jury convicted Sharonoff of the murder, as well as being an ex-con with firearms, and also of elder abuse.
The press release on Thursday’s sentencing by Judge Suzanne Kingsbury said that a friend of the victim described McCabe as “a kind and generous person” who “was respected and well-liked, and now very much missed.”