Slaying Victim, Suspect Identified in Stanton Case
Police have identified the 23-year-old man killed in a suspected love triangle over the weekend and the suspect.
Jorge A. Acosta-Lopez was shot once in the chest Saturday following an argument and fistfight on a balcony at his girlfriend’s apartment in the 11400 block of Court Street, Sheriff’s Lt. Tom Garner said.
The suspect, Emilio de Jesus Salguero Hernandez, 27, had come to his ex-girlfriend’s apartment to visit his child, Garner said.
But during the fight, he pulled a pistol from his waistband and fired three times at Acosta-Lopez at close range, Garner said, and then fled in a 1982 maroon Volkswagen station wagon.
Hernandez is described as 5-foot-5, 150 pounds, with black hair and brown eyes. The Volkswagen license plate is 2AUA429.
Anyone with information about him is asked to call Orange County Sheriff’s Investigator Ken Augustine, at (714) 647-7054; Sgt. Randy Benicky at (714) 647-7044; or, after business hours, the Sheriff’s watch commander at (714) 834-6490.
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