Angela Bryant: More charges filed
against Rodriquez in SP homicide

September 24, 2014
Santa Paula News

Prosecutors have filed more charges against an Oxnard gang member accused of fatally shooting a woman last year in Santa Paula.

Andres Rene Rodriguez, 29, appeared September 16 before Superior Court Judge Charles W. Campbell where he was served with an amended felony complaint.

Rodriguez, a documented member of the La Colonia Chiques gang, is being charged with murder in the July 17, 2013 shooting death of Angela Bryant.

The 33-year-old woman, the mother of several young children, was found with a gunshot wound in the head in the bathroom of a home in the 600 block of Ojai Road; Bryant was taken to Ventura County Medical Center where she died.

Rodriguez also faces special allegations that he killed Bryant during an attempted kidnapping, according to court records. He also was charged with attempted murder involving a man and four counts first-degree residential robbery and other special allegations.

Prosecutors filed an amended felony complaint that included three additional counts of dissuading witnesses from testifying and kidnapping with a special circumstance that Rodriguez did so to facilitate a murder. According to the amended complaint, Rodriguez, who knew Bryant, allegedly robbed her, a man and another woman at gunpoint on July 15, 2013. 

According to prosecutors, Bryant and the man stole property belonging to Rodriguez and another woman later that day.

Two days later on July 17, Rodriguez allegedly kidnapped a woman at gunpoint and “ordered her to divulge” the whereabouts of Bryant and the other man.

When Rodriguez learned the pair was at the Ojai Road home, he entered it and opened fire on the man and on Bryant, who were hiding in the bathroom. The man escaped through the window but Bryant was struck in the head.

Rodriguez will return to court November 10 for a preliminary hearing. He remained in custody in lieu of $1.8 million bail.

Rodriquez has been keeping court dates on an unrelated case, an attempted murder charge that stemmed from an incident that occurred a little more than a month before Bryant was murdered.

Rodriguez is accused of shooting a bicycle rider on June 11, 2013, in Oxnard’s La Colonia neighborhood. 

At a preliminary hearing in July Oxnard Police testified Rodriguez, who was armed with a semi-automatic handgun, started running toward the victim and a struggle ensued. Shots were fired and the victim escaped only to realize his arm was bleeding.

Rodriguez pleaded not guilty in that case and will appear in court September 25.





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