Three men have been charged with murder in the the ambush-style killing of Latin musician DELAROSA in Northridge over the weekend, Los Angeles County prosecutors announced.<\/p>\n
Maria De La Rosa, 22, known professionally as DELAROSA was shot to death inside a car with two other occupants early Saturday in Northridge when the suspects approached their parked car on Bryant Street near Tampa Avenue, demanded money and opened fire, authorities said.<\/p>\n
Francisco Otilio Gaytan, 27; Benny LiconGomez, 27; and Eduardo Lopez, 21, all of Northridge, were each charged Wednesday with one felony count of murder and two felony counts of attempted second-degree robbery in the Nov. 22 attack. Lopez remains a fugitive as of Wednesday morning, according to prosecutors.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis was a ruthless and targeted attack that stole the life of a young woman and artist and inflicted profound lifelong trauma on her family and the two survivors,\u201d said Los Angeles County Dist. Atty Nathan Hochman in a statement announcing the charges. \u201cMy Office will pursue this case aggressively to ensure those responsible are held fully accountable for this senseless and deadly violence.\u201d <\/p>\n
If convicted of all the charges, the men face the possibility of life without parole.<\/p>\n
Prosecutors allege Gaytan, LiconGomez and Lopez shot the three victims <\/a>during a robbery shortly after 1:25 a.m. De La Rosa succumbed to multiple gunshot wounds after paramedics rushed her to the hospital. The two other victims sustained critical injuries. <\/p>\n Gaytan was arrested the same day and LiconGomez was arrested Sunday. Gaytan is due to be arraigned Jan. 7 and is being held in lieu of $2,180,000 bail. LiconGomez is scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday at the San Fernando courthouse and is being held on $2,280,000 bail.<\/p>\n De La Rosa released her first song, \u201cNo me llames\u201d (\u201cDon\u2019t Call Me\u201d) in August. The most recent post on her Instagram account<\/a>, which has more than 40,000 followers, shows her with an electric guitar in a recording studio and is captioned \u201cOcupada cocinando en el Stu,\u201d meaning \u201cBusy cooking in the Stu[dio],\u201d alluding to the upcoming release of more music.<\/p>\n Many people left messages expressing grief for the loss of the young performer in the comments, including several figures in the Latin music community such as music producer Jimmy Humilde<\/a> and Juan Moises, the lead singer of Los Gemelos de Sinaloa.<\/p>\n In a message in Spanish, music producer and engineer Times J Martinez wrote that she was a young and talented musician.<\/p>\n \u201cMe duele que alla sido con violencia,\u201d he wrote, or \u201cIt hurts that it happened with violence.\u201d<\/p>\n Times staff writer Clara Harter contributed to this report.<\/p>\n