A California man will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the disappearance and revenge murder of a classmate who he blamed for getting him expelled from high school several years ago.
Owen Skyler Shover, 23, learned his fate on Friday in the January 2019 murder of Aranda Isabel Briones, 16, who was buried somewhere in the unforgiving San Bernardino Mountains and whose remains have not been found.
Shover was convicted in August on one count of murder in the first degree, along with a special circumstance of lying in wait, Law&Crime reported.
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On Jan. 13, 2019, two of the girl’s friends saw her get into the since-condemned man’s car at Bayside Park in Moreno Valley. After that, she vanished. The only trace of the girl left was her blood — found pooled in the trunk of Shover’s Nissan Versa.
But the relationship between the killer and the victim went back much further.
The two were friends who attended Moreno Valley High School together. On Nov. 7, 2017, a group of students, including the ill-fated pair, were hanging out at a local park instead of attending classes. Shover had a small handgun in his possession that day.