 Some forecast models show barrel hitting South Texas in the coming days. A California man's been convicted of killing a former high school classmate who was on home from college for winter break in 2018. 26-year-old Samuel Woodward convicted of first-degree murder with a hate crime enhancement for killing Blaze Bernstein. Bernstein was a gay Jewish college student who was back home in Southern California when he went missing. A week later, his body was found in a shallow grave in an Orange County park. The jury convicted.