The Orange County prosecutor’s office has said it would seek the death penalty for the shooter, who is in stable condition
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The man who is suspected of killing four people, including a child, in a shooting occurred in the Californian city of Orange was charged with murder this Friday, while the names of the victims were revealed.
The authorities said that Aminadab Gaxiola González, from 44 years, faces four counts of murder , one of attempted murder and two of attempted murder of a Police officer, among other charges for the incident occurred Wednesday afternoon in a normally quiet city in the Los Angeles area.
Investigators have not yet determined the specific cause of the shooting, but it has been reported that the suspect knew of all the victims and that he secured the doors before firing.
Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer had said since Thursday that due to the severity of the crimes his office would even seek capital punishment for the shooter , who is hospitalized but stable.
Update: Victims’ relatives have identified those killed in the Orange shooting as business owner Luis Tovar, his daughter Genevieve Raygoza, Leticia Solis and 9-year-old Matthew Farias, whose mother Blanca Tamayo remains critically wounded https://t.co/hoZbw2SlBP
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Three of the four people who died were identified: Genevieve Raygoza, from 28 years, his father Luis Tovar, from 44, and the boy Matthew Farías, 9, who died in the arms of his mother , a woman who is in the hospital identified as Blanca Tamayo.
Tovar was the owner of the real estate business where the attack occurred and apparently also the father of the other murdered person who had not been officially identified. Relatives told channel ABC7 to It is about a woman named Leticia Solís.