SANTA ANA — Two men are expected to be sentenced Monday to 30 years, four months in prison for the fatal shooting of two men in La Habra a decade ago.

Jonathan Galvan, 38, and Ruben Chacon, 55, pleaded guilty Wednesday to two counts of voluntary manslaughter just before their trial was set to begin.

Chacon’s son, Ruben S. Chacon, pleaded guilty Jan. 20, 2017, to two counts of voluntary manslaughter and was sentenced to eight years in prison.

Chacon has been in custody since May 24, 2013, and Galvan has been behind bars since Aug. 21, 2013.

They were convicted of killing 24-year-old Nick Burresch and 30-year-old Phillip Reinig on Jan. 26, 2012, in front of Burresch’s home at 511 S. Clifton St.

Burresch lived there with his mother, two brothers, a cousin and his aunt. His friend Reinig lived nearby, according to the trial brief in the case.

Burresch had been in a “problematic dating relationship with Irene Galvan and that an earlier verbal dispute between victim Burresch and Irene Galvan’s brother Joel Galvan was the possible motive for the homicide,” according to prosecutors.

An argument broke out earlier that day at the Galvan family’s residence in La Habra that led to the shooting later that day, prosecutors said.

Jonathan Galvin is a cousin of Irene Galvan’s and Ruben Chacon was Irene’s uncle.

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