Rodriguez: Oxnard gang member pleads not guilty in death of Bryant
February 06, 2015
By Peggy Kelly
Santa Paula News
Andres Rene Rodriguez, 30, 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.
Rodriguez is also charged with attempted murder and three counts of robbery. He also faces several special enhancements, including that the murder was committed during a kidnapping and personally discharging a firearm resulting in death.
In September 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.
Prosecutors said that also on July 15 Bryant and a man - allegedly her boyfriend - stole property belonging to Rodriguez and another woman.
Two days later, Rodriguez allegedly kidnapped a woman at gunpoint and “ordered her to divulge” where Bryant and the man were staying.
When told of the home on the 600 block of Ojai Road Rodriguez went there, entered and opened fire on the man and Bryant, who attempted to hide in the bathroom. The man escaped through the window, but Bryant was fatally shot in the head.
Rodriguez is scheduled to appear in court June 16 for a pretrial conference. He remains in jail in lieu of $1.8 million bail.
Rodriguez also faces an attempted-murder charge in an unrelated case that occurred in Oxnard’s La Colonia neighborhood on June 11, 2013. In that incident Rodriguez is accused of shooting a bicyclist in the leg, but the victim was able to escape from Rodriguez without serious injury.
