California mass shooting suspect shouldn't have had a gun

Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez should have been prohibited from owning and buying weapons and ammunition due to a six-year sentence that would have excluded him from the purchase of weapons

Photo: Orange Police / ETIENNE LAURENT / Getty Images

For: EFE 28 of April 2021

The Latino accused of killing four people, one of them a child, last month in Orange in California, should be on a state list that prohibits certain people from buying firearms and ammunition, pointed out by local authorities.

Because Aminadab Gaxiola González had received a conviction for physical assault in 2015 should be on a list of people banned from buying weapons and ammunition.

For that reason, are investigating why he wasn’t on the list and how he got the Glock semi-automatic pistol and ammo with which he carried out the assault of the 31 of March to a business selling mobile homes, Orange County Sheriff’s Jennifer Amat told The Sacramento Bee.

A law introduced in 2003 by the former President of the Assembly Fabián Núñez expanded the prohibition of having weapons for people convicted of some crimes, including the conviction for physical assault that received Gaxiola.

This revelation was occurs when the debate on the need to strengthen security measures during the sale process of weapons was fueled by the rebound in mass shootings in recent weeks, with the last of them last morning, when at least eight people were shot dead in a warehouse of the postal service company FedEx in Indianapolis.

Latin, from 44 years , is charged with the aggravated murder of Jenevieve Raygoza, of 28; Luis Tovar, from 44; Leticia Solís Guzmán, from 58; and the boy Matthew Farías, 9 years old.

The attack occurred in the office building where Tovar and his wife ran a mobile home sales business and the only survivor, identified as Blanca Tamayo, also Tovar’s daughter and mother of the boy, is hospitalized for the injuries she received in the shooting.

Gaxiola, who lived in a motel room in the neighboring city of Anaheim , has been charged with four counts of murder, one count of attempted murder and two counts of attempted murder of a Police officer.

Aggravated charges include the use of a firearm, premeditation and multiple murder, which makes him eligible for the death penalty if found guilty, although the Prosecutor’s Office has not decided whether it will seek this punishment.

The process against the accused is suspended due to his crime state of health as a result of the gunshot wounds he received during his confrontation with the police.