Trial is set to begin in the torture-killing of a Moreno Valley runaway
Jose Solorza, 16, left, Roman Aldana, 20, and Anthony Bobadilla, 17
Two men are scheduled to go on trial Monday, 3 ½ years after 16-year-old runaway Kayla Wood was found, tortured and with her throat slashed, in a burning Moreno Valley home.
Roman Aldana, 22, and Jose Solorza, 18, are charged with first-degree murder and torture in the death of Wood, who had run away from a group home before she died.
Police found Wood’s body Sept. 9, 2006, in a bathtub at an abandoned duplex on Cactus Avenue. She had been stabbed 133 times. Officers were dispatched to the house after it had been set on fire and two boys were seen trying to douse the flames.
Three days later, Riverside County homicide detectives arrested Aldana, a Moreno Valley resident who was 19 at the time, along with Solorza and his cousin Anthony Bobadilla, who were 15 then.
Bobadilla, of Riverside, pleaded guilty in January to voluntary manslaughter.
Aldana could face the death penalty if convicted. Solorza, of Moreno Valley, could face life in prison without parole; he is ineligible for the death penalty because he was a juvenile when Wood was slain.
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Trial is set to begin in the torture-killing of a Moreno Valley runaway
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Hey Mr President, what if this were your daughter? Would you still be trying to push an Amnesty bill down our throats??