PLEASANT HILL — As 37-year-old Santiago Jacobo Sr. struggled to stay upright as he bled out on the curb next to his vehicle, he had one last thing to the man who’d stabbed him 22 times.

“You’re going to pay,” Jacobo called out to 31-year-old Pablo Gutierrez-Morales, who ran for a waiting vehicle, apparently holding onto the folly belief that his victim would live, according to court records.

A year-and-a-half after the February 2024 murder of Santiago, his final words to his killer came true. Gutierrez-Morales, a Concord resident, pleaded no contest to second degree murder and received a prison sentence of 16 years to life, court records show.

“I hope the people who did this get 942 years, because that’s how long I’ll be sad for,” Jacobo’s son, Santiago Jacobo Jr., said at his August se

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