5 men charged with the murder scheme for hiring after the California businessman was killed in the parking lot

Five men are behind bars in connection with the brazen daily shooting of the wealthy businesswoman San Bernardino at the parking lot of fast food restaurants, which the authorities described on Tuesday as a murder for the hire of divorce.

Jessica Jessica, 44 years old, was deadly shot dead outside the Burger Point restaurant, 444 W. Mill St., at about 11:45 am. Southern California, including the pallet and medical service in San Bernardino, and had millions of dollars, police said.

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Now, a 53-year-old resident of Yukaip, one of five suspects accused of first degree murder due to his wife’s death. Also accused of Gerardo Llamas Torres, 31 years, BakerSfield, which is not related to Esenia Torres; 54 -year -old Arnaldo Ruelas from Los -Angeles; His brother Reinaldo Ruelas, 37 years old, also from Los -Angeles; And Juan Perez, 42 years, from Riverside.

During a press conference on Tuesday, February 18, the San Bernardino Police Department, District Prosecutor Jason Anderson, stated that all five men did not admit guilty of first degree murder. They also face special circumstances in anticipation, murder for financial benefits and murder committed during a robbery commission, which makes them the right to the death penalty.

The defendants are currently being held without bail, and the next will appear in court on March 14 at a pledge hearing.

The death of Torres was a shock for the local business community. Police Chief Darren Gudman said she was “well known and known to many in the whole community.”

“She was very civilly engaged and supported numerous endeavors throughout the city,” Gudman said. “This brazen attack has occurred in a wide daylight, according to patrons and employees who worked in the restaurant.

According to him, investigators quickly developed potential clients who eventually identified and led to arrests of five men who allegedly organized the murder.

A video from a restaurant safety played at the Dominic Martinez detective conference captured Torres’s terrible last moments.

Torres was noticed that he left the restaurant around 11:45 am and went to his SUV Mercedes-Benz. The dark color of the Ford Escap, parked in a stall between the entrance due to the drive and the garbage case, moved forward when Torres approached its vehicle. The vehicle stopped in front of a parked vehicle of Torres, and the suspect in the police of the man Lamas Torres came out of the front passenger side and approached Torres when she got into her vehicle.

The Torres killer pointed to her a gun equipped with a muffler and took her wallet. Torres grabbed a gun and tried to tear him out of her attacker when they participated in the fight in the parking lot. The man who was leaving the restaurant tried to come to the help of Torres, but then returned and ran inside when the striker Torres pointed a gun.

Torres ran around her vehicle, cheerfully trying to evade her attacker, who, according to Martinez, shot nine shots. Torres you can see that trying to run back inside the restaurant when the video is over.

“The victim is trying to run inside the business for security, but unfortunately, she was hit, it slowed her, and the suspect shot her again with an additional time with a fatal wound,” Martine said. He said that when officers arrived at the scene, they found Torres lying dead at the restaurant door.

Police believe that a predictable plot of murder for hiring was created to look like a robbery. Investigators later learned that Llamas Torres and the Ford Escap driver identified as Arnaldo Ruela, examined and pursued Torres for months, and followed her from her residence to business, and then to Burger Point, Martinez said.

Within four hours after the murder, according to Martinez, they identified Llamas Torres and Arnaldo Ruelas as an alleged shooter and a driver of a vehicle used in a crime. The witness provided the police with the license plate and description of the Ford Escape, which was found abandoned in the Walmart parking lot on the east side of San Bernardino. Investigators learned that two men switched vehicles and changed their clothes after shooting.

Next month, investigators with the internal regional personal team of the FBI, the Sheriff Sheriff District Department of San Bernardino and the Riverside Sheriff District Department, the BakerSfield Criminal Criminal Criminal Criminal Code and the Kalifornia Patrol helped to identify three other suspicions.

On January 16, investigators arrested Llamas Torres and Arnaldo Ruelas. On February 13, they arrested Revel, Perez and Reinaldo Ruelas.

Martinez stated that police had linked five suspects with Torres because of her and her husband’s pallets, and Sergio pallets. Rhineldo Ruelas works on Pallet Yard, managed by Juan Perez. Arnaldo Ruelas – brother Reinaldo Ruelas, and Arnaldo Ruelas knew Llamas Torres and allegedly brought him to the plan.

During a search of the residences of suspected cash for a total amount of more than $ 200,000 and several firearms were seized, police said.

Gudman said the crime was a single incident.

“I understand that when such cases occur, it brings a lot of fear and concern for personal security,” the chief said. “There was never a common threat to the community, as we quickly learned that these criminals were aiming for this victim in the murder scheme for rental that came from a controversial divorce with one of the suspects, Sergio Revels,” Gudman said.

Anderson praised the Goodman and his team of investigators and all others who worked on the case for their efforts in a rapid completion.

“You could feel that there should be more in history. We believe that we have encaped the whole story, ”Anderson said.

First published: February 1925 at 6:14 am PST