On Monday, a grieving family faced the man accused of killing their loved one. In a Long Beach courtroom, three dozen friends and relatives filled the audience for a view of the defendant charged with murdering 17-year-old Briana Soto.
Soto, a cheerful and upbeat Poly High School student, was headed home from her job at McDonald’s on March 26 when — just a few steps from home — a man she didn’t know shot her to death “for no reason,” according to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office.
Police said Soto’s mother, Ana Morales, was close enough that she heard the gunfire.
In court Monday, Morales said in Spanish that she’s only hoping for one thing: “That justice be done for her, that is what I ask.”
For the last six months, Morales and the rest of Soto’s family have been left searching for answers and questioning why this was allowed to happen, given Fox’s lengthy criminal history. Soon though, the accused killer would be the one claiming he’d been denied justice.
