FRESNO, Calif. — A California girl and her boyfriend have been charged Monday with the homicide of her 18-year-old sister and 3-week-old niece who have been shot of their Fresno dwelling out of jealousy and sibling rivalry in September, authorities mentioned.
Yarelly Solorio-Rivera, 22, and Martin Arroyo-Morales, 26, have been every charged with two counts of homicide and a particular circumstance of a number of murders within the Sept. 24 killings of Yanelly Solorio-Rivera and her child, Celine, Fresno County District Legal professional’s Workplace mentioned in a press release.
Yarelly Solorio-Rivera additionally was charged with two enhancements of “private and intentional discharge of a firearm inflicting dying.”
She and her boyfriend allegedly agreed to kill her sister and he or she fired a 9mm handgun a number of occasions as her sister and niece slept, killing them each, prosecutors mentioned.
It wasn’t instantly recognized if Solorio-Rivera and Arroyo-Morales have retained attorneys who may converse on their behalf. They’re scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday.
Fresno police arrested the couple final week and they’re being held on the Fresno County Jail on a $2 million bond.
Fresno Police Chief Paco Balderrama mentioned after the arrests that when officers arrived they discovered Yanelly Solorio-Rivera shot to dying in her mattress along with her child Celine in her arms. He mentioned that the motive was jealousy and sibling rivalry.
“The homicide scene was traumatic for all officers, detectives, EMS personnel, and crime scene technicians who responded to the scene,” he mentioned.
He mentioned detectives recovered surveillance video of a person leaving the house in a rural a part of Fresno who later was recognized as Arroyo-Morales, who Balderram described as a “verified gang member.”
If convicted of all costs, they face life with out the opportunity of parole or the dying penalty.
“The District Legal professional’s Workplace is presently conducting the required evaluation on whether or not to hunt the dying penalty and can make an announcement on that call at a later date,” officers mentioned.
