Burned Bodies, Quadruple Murder Charges: COURT

ORANGE COUNTY, CA — A second defendant in the murders of four people whose burned bodies were found in vehicles -- three in Orange and one in Fontana -- was scheduled to be arraigned Friday in Orange County.

Angel De Jesus Barreras, 26, of Ontario, is charged with four counts of murder and faces special circumstance allegations of multiple murders and murder during a robbery, according to court records. Barreras, who was sentenced to two years in jail in March of 2016 on a drug charge in San Bernardino County Superior Court, was transferred to Orange County Jail on April 2, according to jail and court records.

Barreras was charged with the murders on Oct. 31.

Co-defendant Alejandro Guerrero Ruiz, 25, was charged in January 2016 with the same counts.

Co-defendants Alexis Corral, 25, Juan Castro, 28, and Rosario Roman- Lopez, 26, are fugitives, according to court records.

They are accused of killing 19-year-old Antonio Medina of Glendale, Arizona, 20-year-old Fernando Meza of Phoenix, Arizona, and 26-year-old Edgar Berrelleza-Soto of Orange, who were in an SUV found ablaze and rolled onto a sidewalk in front of a home in the 500 block of East Oakmont Avenue near Shaffer Street the afternoon of Nov. 9, 2015.

The fourth victim is 35-year-old Joel Mauricio Berrelleza of Orange, the brother of Berrelleza-Soto. His body was found Nov. 15 in the backseat of a car in Fontana. The date of all four murders was listed as Nov. 9, 2015, according to court records.

City News Service

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