Orange County prosecutors Friday released more information on the case against a 23-year-old man accused of fatally shooting his mother in Fullerton on the Fourth of July.<\/p>\n
Emmanuel Messiah Wesley was charged Thursday with murder with a sentencing enhancement for the discharge of a gun causing death.<\/p>\n
Wesley was accused of killing 61-year-old Theresa Jones.<\/p>\n
Wesley\u2019s city of residence was not provided.<\/p>\n
Police officials on Thursday referred a request for details to the Orange County District Attorney\u2019s Office, which did not release more information until Friday.<\/p>\n
Jones was reported missing July 7 when she failed to pick her grandchild and was not returning calls from family, prosecutors said. The victim\u2019s body was found in the passenger seat of her car in a parking lot of a church in Fullerton, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
Jones had two gunshot wounds to her back, prosecutors said.<\/p>\n
Police recovered video surveillance footage showing Jones driving to the Fullerton Police Department on the Fourth of July about 2:45 p.m. Wesley got out of the backseat after his mother slumped over and he got behind the wheel and drove away with the victim, prosecutors alleged.<\/p>\n
Wesley pleaded not guilty Thursday and is next due in court July 24 for a pretrial hearing in the North Justice Center in Fullerton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Orange County prosecutors Friday released more information on the case against a 23-year-old man accused of fatally shooting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,61936,410,2628,21729,6316,74626,37707,135,2131],"class_list":["post-404906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-details","tag-fatally","tag-fullerton","tag-more","tag-mother","tag-ocda","tag-releases","tag-shooting","tag-suspect"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404906","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=404906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/404906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=404906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=404906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=404906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}