Three males have been charged with homicide within the the ambush-style killing of Latin musician DELAROSA in Northridge over the weekend, Los Angeles County prosecutors introduced.
Maria De La Rosa, 22, recognized professionally as DELAROSA was shot to dying inside a automotive with two different occupants early Saturday in Northridge when the suspects approached their parked automotive on Bryant Road close to Tampa Avenue, demanded cash and opened hearth, authorities mentioned.
Francisco Otilio Gaytan, 27; Benny LiconGomez, 27; and Eduardo Lopez, 21, all of Northridge, had been every charged Wednesday with one felony rely of homicide and two felony counts of tried second-degree theft within the Nov. 22 assault. Lopez stays a fugitive as of Wednesday morning, based on prosecutors.
“This was a ruthless and focused assault that stole the lifetime of a younger girl and artist and inflicted profound lifelong trauma on her household and the 2 survivors,” mentioned Los Angeles County Dist. Atty Nathan Hochman in a press release asserting the costs. “My Workplace will pursue this case aggressively to make sure these accountable are held absolutely accountable for this mindless and lethal violence.”
If convicted of all the costs, the boys face the opportunity of life with out parole.
Prosecutors allege Gaytan, LiconGomez and Lopez shot the three victims throughout a theft shortly after 1:25 a.m. De La Rosa succumbed to a number of gunshot wounds after paramedics rushed her to the hospital. The 2 different victims sustained important accidents.
Gaytan was arrested the identical day and LiconGomez was arrested Sunday. Gaytan is because of be arraigned Jan. 7 and is being held in lieu of $2,180,000 bail. LiconGomez is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday on the San Fernando courthouse and is being held on $2,280,000 bail.
De La Rosa launched her first tune, “No me llames” (“Don’t Name Me”) in August. The latest put up on her Instagram account, which has greater than 40,000 followers, reveals her with an electrical guitar in a recording studio and is captioned “Ocupada cocinando en el Stu,” that means “Busy cooking within the Stu[dio],” alluding to the upcoming launch of extra music.
Many individuals left messages expressing grief for the lack of the younger performer within the feedback, together with a number of figures within the Latin music neighborhood akin to music producer Jimmy Humilde and Juan Moises, the lead singer of Los Gemelos de Sinaloa.
In a message in Spanish, music producer and engineer Instances J Martinez wrote that she was a younger and gifted musician.
“Me duele que alla sido con violencia,” he wrote, or “It hurts that it occurred with violence.”
Instances workers author Clara Harter contributed to this report.
