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Jury delivers final conviction in gruesome murder of California tech CEO

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13.03.2026

FILE: Santa Cruz tech CEO Tushar Atre was murdered in 2019. The last man charged in his killing has been convicted nearly six years later.

The final man charged in the 2019 killing of California tech CEO Tushar Atre has been convicted of murder, nearly six years after a botched robbery ended the executive’s life. 

On Wednesday, jurors at the Santa Cruz County courthouse found Joshua Camps, 29, guilty of kidnapping, burglary and first-degree murder, according to KRON-TV. Atre, who was the ​​founder and CEO of AtreNet, a corporate marketing firm, died at the age of 50. 

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“We are proud of the work that has been done in this case and hope this verdict brings a sense of closure to Mr. Atre’s loved ones,” Ashley Keehn, a public information officer at the Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Office, told SFGATE. The Santa Cruz District Attorney’s Office did not comment by the time of publication. 

Camps, who was 23 at the time of the murder, was arrested in May 2020 along with his co-conspirators, Stephen........

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