A Desert Hot Springs man with a past felony conviction suspected of fatally shooting a 30-year-old woman within the city was arrested Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Officers responded to a report of a dead person at about 5:15 p.m. Sunday in the area of Mission Creek and Worsley roads, according to the Desert Hot Springs Police Department.<\/p>\n
Authorities revealed that a woman was shot and killed around 1:30 p.m. the same day for unknown reasons. The victim was later identified as Brianna Chavez of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n
Aaron Espinoza, 29, was identified as the suspect and was taken into custody Tuesday at the Arizona\/Mexico border with the assistance of the Riverside County District Attorney\u2019s Office Gang Impact team, the U.S. Marshals Service Fugitive Task Force and the San Luis Police Department.<\/p>\n
Espinoza has been charged with murder, child endangerment and being a felon in possession of a firearm, police said.<\/p>\n
He was expected to be extradited from Arizona.<\/p>\n
Anyone with additional information regarding the shooting was asked to call Detective George Bailey at 760-668-5857, or report tips anonymously through Crime Stoppers at 760-341-7867.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Desert Hot Springs man with a past felony conviction suspected of fatally shooting a 30-year-old woman within…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[683,2040,410,48,52,51,47,50,49,135,22713,1557],"class_list":["post-225003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-angeles","tag-arrested","tag-fatally","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-shooting","tag-suspected","tag-woman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225003","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=225003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}