MURRIETA >> A probationer who killed his one-time “sugar girl” and her boyfriend at his Temecula home during an altercation over their occupancy of the property was sentenced Friday to life in prison without the possibility of parole.

A Murrieta jury last month deliberated just over a day before finding 60-year-old David Alan Floyd of Temecula guilty of killing Danielle Ricker of Temecula and Angel Ponce of Escondido, both 31.

Jurors convicted Floyd of two counts of first-degree murder and found true a special circumstance allegation of taking multiple lives, as well as convicting him of being a probationer in possession of a firearm and violating a domestic violence restraining order, with sentence-enhancing gun and great bodily injury allegations.

During a hearing at the Southwest Justice Center, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Timothy Freer imposed two consecutive terms of life without parole for the two murders.

Floyd was arrested at the end of February following a sheriff’s department investigation into the killings, which occurred in late January.

According to a trial brief filed by the prosecution, Floyd had been at odds with Ricker since 2021, long after she had established residency in his single-story house at 34006 Galleron St., on the east end of Temecula.

In a March interview with sheriff’s detectives, Floyd “stated that he had met Danielle 10 years before, and she had become his `sugar girl,”‘ the brief stated.

“Danielle eventually got a boyfriend (Ponce), and they stayed at the defendant’s house,” according to the prosecution.

The situation created conflicts, including two separate instances in 2021 during which Floyd became physical with Ricker, prompting her to call 911. According to court papers, Floyd was ultimately charged with battery on a domestic partner, and Ricker obtained a domestic violence restraining order against him, granting her space within his residence, with the seemingly impractical arrangement that he avoid contact with her.

The defendant later pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of disturbing the peace.

On Jan. 28, an argument erupted over keys to the property, and Floyd later recounted in jailhouse conversations with his adult children — which were recorded — that he told Ricker “to get the (expletive) out,” according to the brief.

“The defendant then told them both to leave, and he and Angel got into a (verbal) altercation,” the narrative said. “The defendant said he `wasn’t going to be a bitch’ … and knew that he could not win a fistfight against Angel, so he preemptively shot him.”

Prosecutors said Floyd then turned the .22-caliber pistol on Ricker, who was standing nearby, gunning her down. He loaded the bodies into his Porsche and drove east toward the unincorporated community of Sage, dumping the remains in the area of Sage and Voyager roads, prosecutors said.

During the last week of February, Ponce’s brother-in-law, Moe Olvera, and Ricker’s mother, Diana Ricker, both contacted the sheriff’s department to report their loved ones missing.

Around the same time, Floyd called his ex-wife, Amara Floyd, and confessed to the killings. He asked specifically to speak to his son and daughter to explain his actions, anticipating that he was about to be arrested.

Detectives were able to locate Ponce’s and Ricker’s bodies on March 2 utilizing information that the defendant supplied to his family, along with traffic camera images that showed his vehicle heading into Sage.