Man will get 25 years to life for fatally stabbing his girlfriend in Moreno Valley

RIVERSIDE — A probationer who fatally stabbed his 23-year-old girlfriend after he imagined her making an attempt to hurt him whereas they slept at his father’s Moreno Valley residence was certain for state jail Monday to serve a sentence of 25 years to life behind bars.

Ricardo Rivera, 28, pleaded responsible in April to first-degree homicide underneath an settlement with the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office.

During a listening to on the Riverside Hall of Justice on Friday, Superior Court Judge Jason Armand licensed the phrases of the plea deal and imposed the sentence stipulated by the prosecution and protection.

Rivera murdered Ashley Brosious of Moreno Valley on the afternoon of Jan. 17, 2019, in his father’s residence at 23161 Denver Court, close to Adeline Avenue.

According to briefs filed by the prosecution and protection, Rivera was a ordinary drug consumer, as was Brosious, and their two-year relationship, which developed from working collectively at an Amazon warehouse, was replete with brief break-ups on account of mutual mistrust.

Rivera recurrently smoked methamphetamine, and a day earlier than the killing, he had been hospitalized on account of strolling the streets of Moreno Valley in an incoherent, zombie-like situation, in keeping with courtroom papers.

After he was launched from the hospital on Jan. 17, 2019, he slept a lot of the day, as did Brosious, within the southeast bed room of his dad’s single- story home.

The protection mentioned in its pretrial transient that when the defendant awoke round 5 p.m., he was “in a daze induced from use of the meth, and he believed Brosious was trying to hurt him.”

Prosecutors mentioned Rivera went to the kitchen and grabbed an 8-inch chef’s knife, then returned to the bed room and plunged it into the left aspect of his sleeping girlfriend’s neck, evidently severing an artery.

Rivera’s father returned residence throughout the hour and located Brosious laying in a pool of blood, prompting him to name 911, in keeping with the prosecution.

Sheriff’s deputies and paramedics arrived a short while later and pronounced the lady dead on the scene.

Sgt. Ben Ramirez mentioned the defendant was on the home and brought into custody with out incident.

Rivera had a previous conviction for home violence involving his ex- girlfriend, recognized solely as “V.T.,” whom he choked into unconsciousness throughout an argument in 2017, in keeping with courtroom data.