April 25, 2018
Long Beach man charged with killing ex-wife in Covina and Rancho Cucamonga woman in Azusa
By Ruby Gonzales
The San Gabriel Valley Tribune
A Long Beach man accused of fatally shooting his former wife in her Covina apartment is also a suspect in an Azusa shooting that left one woman dead and one man wounded, police announced Wednesday.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office last week charged Miguel Angel Prieto, 43, with two counts of murder and one count of attempted murder. He will be arraigned May 10 at Pomona Superior Court.
A relative found a wounded Maria Perez in her apartment in the 1300 block of West San Bernardino Road in Covina on April 11. Perez, 42, died at the scene.
Covina police tracked down Prieto to a fast food restaurant parking lot in Long Beach several hours later and arrested him. They also recovered a revolver.
Prieto is on probation for assaulting his former wife’s boyfriend in 2015.
Los Angeles County sheriff’s Homicide Lt. Joe Mendoza believes Prieto went looking for his ex-wife’s boyfriend on Feb. 9 and ended up in the 1500 block of West McKinley Avenue in Azusa just after 9:50 p.m. where he allegedly shot two people in a parked car.
Rocio Sandoval, 38, of Rancho Cucamonga died two days later from a gunshot wound to the head, according to the coroner’s office.
Mendoza said Sandoval’s acquaintance, a Los Angeles man, was shot but survived. He thinks the shooting is a case of mistaken identity.
Sandoval and her friend went to Azusa that night and were in the car when the suspect showed up, confronted them and shot into the car, according to Mendoza.
Prieto is being held without bail at Men’s Central Jail in Los Angeles.
https://www.sgvtribune.com/2018/04/2...oman-in-azusa/
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