Man will get life in jail for position in Home Gardens gang killing

MURRIETA — A Home Gardens gang member who helped kill an outcast lured to his loss of life by the defendant was sentenced Friday to life in jail with out the opportunity of parole.

A Murrieta jury in June convicted 24-year-old Eric “Silent” Chaparro of first-degree homicide and located true particular circumstance allegations of killing for the good thing about a prison avenue gang and mendacity in wait within the 2020 loss of life of Antonio “Omen” Anaya, 25.

During a listening to on the Southwest Justice Center, Riverside County Superior Court Judge Stephen Gallon imposed the sentence required underneath state legislation for the offenses.

According to the District Attorney’s Office, Anaya was alienated from fellow members of the Corona Varrio Locos Matadores in January 2020 after an unexplained falling out.

Chaparro was amongst Anaya’s prior associates, and the 2 had been on good phrases, prosecutors mentioned in a trial temporary.

On Jan. 26, 2020, the gang hierarchy determined Anaya was a legal responsibility, and one of many members angling to turn into a frontrunner, then-15-year-old Horacio Monroy, volunteered to be a success man, with Chaparro’s assist, the temporary mentioned.

Monroy’s case was dealt with in juvenile court docket, and its disposition was unavailable.

Court papers mentioned that he and Chaparro drove round a lot of the afternoon of Jan. 26 within the latter’s Toyota Scion, ready for a chance to confront Anaya, who in the end went to a gang hangout at 3710 Windsong St., close to Harlow Avenue, in Home Gardens.

Prosecutors mentioned that Chaparro talked Anaya out of the home and into the driveway to talk with him there.

Monroy allegedly hid in shrubs close by and waited for a chance to open hearth with a .40-caliber semiautomatic handgun. According to prosecutors, Anaya instantly turned suspicious about Chaparro’s motives and pulled a 9mm pistol, prompting Monroy to start firing his gun.

Chaparro ran towards his Toyota as Monroy allegedly fired a number of rounds, gravely wounding Anaya, who returned hearth, hanging Chaparro’s car earlier than collapsing on the finish of the driveway, in keeping with the prosecution.

The defendants fled as residents of surrounding properties referred to as 911.

Anaya was taken to Riverside Community Hospital, the place he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Sheriff’s Central Homicide Unit detectives spent practically seven months piecing collectively what occurred, counting on space residents’ statements, safety surveillance movies obtained from companies within the rapid neighborhood of Windsong and Chaparro’s cell phone information to amass enough proof to acquire arrest warrants in August 2020.

Chaparro had a misdemeanor conviction for driving underneath the affect, however he had no documented prior felony convictions in Riverside County.

Information concerning his co-defendant was unavailable.