The 23-year-old man allegedly plotted for months to kill the 16-year-old after she told police it was his gun they saw her try to throw in a drainage ditch after he allegedly told her to get rid of it and ran away.
Aranda Briones is dead and her alleged killer Owen Skyler Shover will spend the rest of his life behind bars without the possibility of parole, as reported by KESQ .
“He’s a stone-cold killer,” said district attorney Mike Hestrin. “On the day of his conviction, he spoke to his grandfather from jail, wondering whether he should ‘get a trophy’ for being a convicted murderer. He has shown no remorse.”
The jury in Shover’s case deliberated for less than a day in August before returning a guilty verdict for first-degree murder against him for the 2019 shooting death of the 16-year-old Moreno Valley girl because her honesty got him expelled from school.
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The Hesperia native was accused of plotting his revenge against the teen for months after his expulsion, securing a gun, luring her into his car, and then killing her and hiding her body in the San Bernadino Mountains.