A Santa Ana man faces the potential of life in jail after Orange County prosecutors say he shot at two 13-year-old boys in Santa Ana from his automobile, killing one in every of them, and wounded one other teenager because the boy stood inside his personal kitchen.
Raymond Mario Jimenez, 27, was charged with homicide and tried homicide in reference to the June 5 drive-by capturing on Pine Avenue in Santa Ana, Orange County Dist. Atty. Todd Spitzer’s workplace mentioned in a information launch on Monday.
The 2 13-year-old boys have been working towards their condominium constructing on Bishop Avenue round 12:15 p.m., minutes after some sort of confrontation, when Jimenez drove up, stopped and shot at them from his car, prosecutors mentioned. Daniel Vargas, 13, was fatally shot within the head. A second sufferer, a 16-year-old boy who authorities say heard the gunfire and seemed out of his kitchen window, was additionally shot within the head however survived.
The capturing unfolded close to an elementary faculty and compelled the college to go on lockdown, in response to prosecutors.
Police discovered Vargas mendacity wounded on the bottom close to a sidewalk. The opposite 13-year-old boy was discovered within the space, unhurt, in response to the Santa Ana Police Division.
The 16-year-old was taken to the hospital in important however steady situation, prosecutors mentioned. Vargas was taken to Orange County World Medical Middle, the place he died two days after the capturing.
Murder investigators arrested and booked Jimenez the identical day Vargas died. He was charged on June 11 with homicide, tried homicide, capturing into an inhabited dwelling, and 6 felony enhancements for allegedly capturing a firearm inflicting nice bodily harm or demise. If convicted, he faces life in jail with out parole.
Jimenez is scheduled to be arraigned July 10.
A GoFundMe set as much as help Vargas’ household with funeral bills mentioned folks knew him for “his ardour for soccer and his pleasure about beginning highschool.”
He not too long ago graduated from Mendez Elementary Intermediate College in Santa Ana, in response to the put up.
Prosecutors didn’t reveal a motive behind the drive-by capturing, however the Santa Ana Police Division mentioned any ideas related to the case are eligible for a division reward program.
Anybody with data on the capturing can name the Santa Ana Police Division’s murder detectives at (714) 245-8390 or the Orange County Crime Stoppers at (855) 847-6227.
