Man Convicted of Killing 4 in Burned Bodies Case in Orange

Published on April 30, 2024

SANTA ANA, Calif.—A 33-year-old man was convicted April 29 of killing four men, including three torched in a moving car in Orange in the middle of the afternoon, amid a violent conflict between drug dealers. Raul Gastellum Flores was convicted of four counts of murder with special circumstances of killing during a robbery and for more than one victim. Mr. Flores was scheduled to be sentenced July 19. Mr. Flores was convicted of killing 19-year-old Antonio Medina of Glendale, Arizona, 20-year-old Fernando Meza of Phoenix, 26-year-old Edgar Berrelleza-Soto of Orange and his brother, 35-year-old Joel Mauricio Berrelleza of Orange. Mr. Medina, Mr. Meza and Mr. Berrelleza-Soto were found in a flaming SUV rolling onto a sidewalk in front of a home in the 500 block of East Oakmont Avenue near Shaffer Street the afternoon of Nov. 9, 2015. Joel Berrelleza was found Nov. 15 in the backseat of a car in Fontana....

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