Closing arguments to begin for accused killer

The victims, 18-year-old Rylee Goodrich and 19-year-old Anthony Barajas, and Jimenez, were three of the six people who were inside the cinema during a showing of “The Forever Purge,” during the attack, according to the Corona Police Department. The horror film centers around lawless murders. However, authorities do not believe the violence in the film was related to the shootings. 

Jimenez has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity and said he suffers from schizophrenia and heard voices, which led him on the shooting rampage. 

It’s a bench trial, so a judge, not a jury, will decide Jimenez’s fate. 

On July 26, 2021 around 11:45 a.m., Corona PD received a 911 call for service from the Regal Edwards Theater at the Crossings Shopping Center. Once at the theater, arriving officers discovered two victims suffering from gunshot wounds inside the cinema near their seats.

Cpl. Kouroubacalis with Corona PD said detectives are unable to use surveillance footage for the investigation because no cameras were recording inside the theater at the time of the shooting.

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While at the home, authorities discovered a handgun and other evidence that connected to the shooting. Cpl. Kouroubacalis said during a press conference that the shell casings found at the theater matched the caliber of the weapon. 

He was booked into the Riverside Presley Detention Center on charges of murder, robbery with a gun and attempted murder on a $2,000,000 bail. He then faced two murder charges after Barajas, who initially survived the shooting, passed away at a local trauma center.

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She was a graduate of Corona High School “but she wanted to go into criminal justice and had been working with me this summer in my Private Investigator job,” her grieving dad Dave Goodrich said.

In an interview with FOX 11, her father questioned why there were no metal detectors at the theater. He said the two were on their first date and that Barajas was “a boy her dad actually approved of.”