A suspected gang member from Santa Ana was arrested and charged with two counts of tried homicide within the capturing of a 3-year-old lady who was wounded whereas using within the again seat of a automobile, police stated.
Angel Castillo, 20, was allegedly attempting to shoot the person within the entrance seat of the automobile, recognized because the boyfriend of the lady’s mom.
Castillo was arrested Thursday in Santa Fe Springs, Santa Ana police stated in a assertion Monday.
He faces two counts of tried homicide, in addition to fees of discharging a firearm into an occupied automobile and committing the crime for the advantage of a avenue gang.
Angel Castillo was arrested and charged within the capturing of a toddler in Santa Ana.
(Santa Ana Police Division)
The couple, the 3-year-old lady and a 4-year-old have been at fifteenth and Spurgeon streets in Santa Ana on Feb. 25 when somebody fired on the automobile, stated Santa Ana Police Officer Natalie Garcia.
Though the mom’s boyfriend seemed to be the supposed goal, she stated, one of many bullets pierced the trunk of the automobile and located its solution to the 3-year-old lady. No person else contained in the automobile was wounded.
The 2 continued to drive, unaware that the lady was wounded till they discovered her gasping for air. They then drove her to Kids’s Hospital of Orange County.
Police discovered two bullet holes of their white sedan.
Police had initially recognized the 2 adults within the automobile because the lady’s mother and father, however Garcia stated the mom’s boyfriend was not the kid’s father.
Garcia stated the 3-year-old lady was nonetheless hospitalized as of Monday however is anticipated to make a full restoration.
