Suspect in 2020 Riverside County highway shooting already in custody for different crime

Riverside County authorities on Monday announced that the suspect in a deadly 2020 incident on Highway 74 near Hemet was already in custody for a different crime.

The incident happened back on September 2, 2020, at around 8:30 a.m., when deputies with the Riverside County Sheriff’s Office’s Perris Station were called to Highway 74, just west of Highway 79 in the unincorporated community called Green Acres for reports of a man down, according to a news release.

At the time, the victim, identified as 42-year-old Homeland resident Jabulani Mensa Robinson, was pronounced dead at the scene after suffering from “injuries sustained during an altercation” with the suspect…

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