An Oxnard woman is facing a second murder charge after investigators said they linked her to the 2015 death of her newborn child.<\/p>\n
Marisol Flores, 30, was charged with murder and assault on a child causing death in connection with the death of her 25-day-old baby in 2015, according to a news release from the Ventura County district attorney\u2019s office.<\/p>\n
The amended complaint was filed in Ventura County Superior Court, according to the release.<\/p>\n
Flores was previously charged with the Feb. 8 death of her newborn baby at a homeless encampment along West Vineyard Avenue in Oxnard. The Ventura County Sheriff\u2019s Office reopened a previous investigation into the November 2015 death of her other baby, and authorities say evidence shows she was responsible for the death of that child as well. <\/p>\n
Flores has been charged with two counts of murder and two counts of assault on a child causing death, according to the release. <\/p>\n
She also faces special enhancements, which can add to a prison sentence upon conviction, for allegedly using a deadly weapon, killing more than one victim and targeting the vulnerable. <\/p>\n
Flores\u2019 defense attorney, according to authorities, said that there was doubt whether she was competent to stand trial. A psychologist has been appointed by the court to evaluate her and all criminal proceedings have been suspended in the meantime.<\/p>\n
A competency hearing is scheduled for March 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Oxnard woman is facing a second murder charge after investigators said they linked her to the 2015…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[2598,6577,3409,5744,99868,7254,48,52,51,47,50,49,99869,1331,1511,11053,346,99870,7214,31538,99871],"class_list":["post-217829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-assault","tag-authority","tag-child","tag-count","tag-early-death","tag-homeless-encampment","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-marisol-flores","tag-murder","tag-news-release","tag-november","tag-office","tag-oxnard-woman","tag-prosecutor","tag-ventura-county-sheriff","tag-west-vineyard-avenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}