Joseph Hobbs
An act of random violence ended the life of an 11-year-old boy on March 6, leaving a community grieving.
Joseph Hobbs was shot and killed at a Monterey Park home he was visiting with his mother, Reva Armijo, and brother, Joshua, that Saturday.
Joseph Ray Hobbs
Three suspects were arrested and charged in connection with the shooting — Alexandria Tabora, 40; her son, Santos Mateo Garcia, 21; and Erik Carrillo-Garcia, 24.
On Thursday, March 18, all three suspects were each indicted by a Valencia County grand jury on one count of first-degree murder.
Tabora was also indicted on aggravated assault and conspiracy to commit aggravated assault. Garcia is also facing two counts of aggravated assault and one of conspiracy to commit aggravated assault. The grand jury also indicted Carillo-Garcia on charges of aggravated assault, conspiracy to commit aggravated assault and possession of a firearm by a felon.
According to the criminal complaint, on the morning of Saturday, March 6, the three suspects, along with another boy, went to the house on Carmel Drive in Monterey Park.
The boy knocked on the door and told the man living there Tabora wanted to talk to him. Later that day, the man saw the same car driving slowly in front of his property then stop at his gate.
The man told investigators Tabora was driving, while Carrillo-Garcia was in the front passenger seat and Garcia was sitting behind him.
When he approached the car and looked inside, Garcia said, “What are you looking at, you son of a bitch?”
The man told detectives he walked away, then heard gun shots and bullets go by his head.
He told deputies he knew Garcia and Carrillo-Garcia were shooting but did not explain how he knew that, the criminal complaint says.
“… when the shooting stopped, he noticed a child on the ground with his mother (Reva Kathleen Armijo) holding him,” the complaint says.
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