District attorney’s office releases more details on Newport Beach murder

The Orange County district attorney’s office has released more details on the murder in Newport Beach of 46-year-old Robert Tamaccio in the early hours of Sept. 30, allegedly by a father-daughter pair — the former, having just been released from state prison seven weeks earlier.

Randolph Loren Aguirre, 55, was charged with special circumstances murder and robbery in the second degree, according to a news release issued Friday by the district attorney’s office. Sentencing enhancements have been placed on his case for both the special circumstance of robbery and for use of a deadly weapon, which could extend his sentence by an additional year.

His daughter, 30-year-old Desiree Aguirre, has been charged with robbery in the second degree with a sentencing enhancement of a secondary offense while released from custody.

Neither of the Aguirres have entered a plea and both are next scheduled for an arraignment hearing at the Central Justice Center in Santa Ana on Nov. 3.

If convicted of all charges, Randolph Aguirre will face a maximum sentence of the death penalty, according to the district attorney’s office.

According to the statement, Tamaccio passed out in an alleyway near 34th Street and Seashore Drive after a night of drinking at around 1:30 a.m. The Aguirres are accused of having stopped their pickup truck to rob Tamaccio, stealing his Rolex watch. The elder Aguirre is alleged to have stabbed Tamaccio, kicked him in the head several times and took his shoes.

Arriving first responders transported Tamaccio to a local hospital, where he later died of his injuries.

District attorneys said Randolph Aguirre is a “third striker” under the state’s controversial “Three Strikes and You’re Out” law, passed by California voters in 1994 in response to the murders of Kimber Reynolds in 1992 and Polly Klaas in 1993, that imposes a life sentence on those suspects who have one or two other serious convictions.

Randolph Aguirre was released from state prison just seven weeks before Tamaccio’s murder for a 2021 assault with a deadly weapon and assault to commit mayhem case, to which he pleaded guilty. He is being held without bail at the Theo Lacy Facility in Orange.

At the time of the crime, Desiree Aguirre was out on $10,000 bail for a different robbery. She has pleaded not guilty in that case. In the Sept. 30 incident, she was charged with one felony count of second-degree robbery and is being held at the Central Women’s Jail in lieu of $150,000 bail, according to officials.