DALY CITY — After initially pleading not guilty, a Daly City man pleaded no contest Monday to killing his longtime partner, a 65-year-old senior citizens advocate found fatally beaten in the couple’s home.
Daniel Bryan Thomas, 67, will be sentenced to 15 years to life after pleading no contest to second-degree murder and infliction of great bodily injury in the death of Ruby Gim, his girlfriend of 30 years, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.
Thomas, who changed his plea Monday morning before the start of the third day of his jury trial in the case, is scheduled to be sentenced on Dec. 17.
Thomas lived with Gim, who worked for 36 years as a nonprofit administrator at Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center in San Francisco, for 30 years. He was arrested April 30, 2014 on suspicion of killing Gim, who was found severely beaten on her bedroom floor that morning with wounds across her entire body.
On the morning of April 30, a pair of neighbors in the 400 block of Florence Street called police to report that Gim was unresponsive after Thomas, whom authorities thought was estranged from the woman, went to their house and said, “There’s something wrong with Ruby.”
Thomas previously denied any responsibility for Gim’s injuries or death.
Contact Mark Gomez at 408-920-5869. Follow him at Twitter.com/markmgomez.
