Ventura County Sheriff s Office
Kristian Fonseca, 22, of Fillmore
SANTA PAULA, Calif. - The Ventura County District Attorney s Office reported that a Fillmore man has been charged with murder after he shot three Santa Paula men, killing two and wounding the third.
22-year-old Kristian Fonseca reportedly shot at the men on Oct. 24, 2020.
Santa Paula police responded to the 200 block of Ventura Street around 10:13 p.m. where they found two men suffering from gunshot wounds. One man, identified as Jose Estrada, was pronounced dead at the scene while the second, Daniel Zuniga, was transported to Ventura County Medical Center in critical condition.
Ojai Valley News editor
Ventura County Public Health Officer Dr. Robert Levin said the COVID-19 vaccine is set to arrive in Ventura County “almost certainly” Dec. 14, 15 or 16.
“I am just pleased and relieved,” he said Dec. 12, of the imminent arrival of the vaccine. “Ninety-five percent efficacy is beyond belief,” he said. “It is too much to hope for. It’s wonderful, just wonderful.”
Levin said the first shipment of COVID-19 vaccine in Ventura County will be by Pfizer-BioNTech, which requires super-cold refrigeration of -70 to -80 degrees.
The Moderna vaccine will come to Ventura County later, he said.
Long hoped for, 6,800 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are expected to arrive in Ventura County just as it is experiencing record numbers of COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations. “We are in the surge,” Levin said. “We hoped we would dodge it.”
Daniel Louis Fuller, 36, of Ventura
VENTURA COUNTY, Calif. - Ventura County District Attorney Gregory D. Totten announced Thursday that a man has been sentenced to six years in state prison for the 2018 death of a Ventura County Jail inmate.
The DA s Office said, on Sept. 11, 2018, Daniel Louis Fuller and Jeffrey Kibler were both housed in the same quad at the jail.
Fuller allegedly wanted Kibler to leave the quad and when Kibler refused to leave, Fuller punched him one time in the face before dragging him to the main quad door.
According to the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department, 53-year-old Kibler was rushed to the Ventura County Medical Center where he later died due to a ruptured spleen.
Graph by County of Ventura
Ventura County Public Health has reported a new record number of people hospitalized with COVID-19 each day this week, culminating in 151 patients in the hospital with the virus on Dec. 10. This Dec. 10 chart, available with others showing different local COVID-19 metrics, can be viewed at www.venturacountyrecovers.org.
Austin Widger,
Ojai Valley News reporter
Ventura County government officials highlighted the record number of county residents hospitalized and in the ICU with COVID-19.
Every day this week a new record was set for hospitalizations, they reported at the county’s weekly COVID-19 press conference Dec. 9.
Dr. John Fankhauser, CEO of Ventura County Medical Center and Santa Paula Hospital, said: “Four weeks ago, there were 35 patients with COVID in our hospitals in Ventura County. Four weeks ago. Every day since then … there’s been an increase in the numbers of hospitalized patients with COVID in our county. Today (Dec. 9), we’r