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24-year-old man arrested in connection with 2016 Banning murder
Police have arrested a suspect believed to have been behind the June 2016 stabbing death of a man in Banning.
Jerry Valdepena, 24, was arrested by Banning police detectives, with assistance from the Riverside County District Attorney’s Gang Impact Team, in Hemet on April 9.
Valdepena is accused of killing of Jeremy Cooley, 26 in June 5, 2016.
Police say that Valdepena and a second suspect, identified as James Chagolla, 30, attended a party on the 400 Block of Alessandro Road in Banning. At around 1:30 a.m., Cooley asked them to quiet down and the two men stabbed him multiple times.
Beloved grandmother murdered in home invasion in Riverside; 19-year-old in custody
By Mary Stringini article
RIVERSIDE, Calif. - A beloved grandmother was killed last weekend in a random act of cowardice to one of our more vulnerable community members, Riverside Police Chief Larry Gonzalez said in a statement Thursday.
Sixto Jesus Garcia Pena, 19, of Palm Springs, was booked Wednesday on charges of murder, home invasion robbery and burglary in connection with the death of 78-year-old Denise Irene Wong, of Riverside.
Sixto Jesus Garcia Pena, 19
Investigators said that on the evening of Jan. 6, police officers responded to a home in the 200 block of E. Manfield Street, to check the welfare of an elderly resident. Wong s out of town family members had called authorities to check on her because she lived by herself and was not answering their calls.