Custody divided before killing the mother
Tustin - Melissa Mendoza Maine fled with her daughter for 2 years last month, where the child of a former friend mad, had legal custody.
Mendoza, Maine, but still Tustin to fight in court for their daughter.
It has never been before a judge.
The 29 years and mother of three years paradise Legal deathblow was Monday of Sabattus, Maine, by his friend and ex-Hell’s Angels member Daniel Roberts, 35
Roberts’ lawyer, Leonard Sharon, said Roberts told police that Mendoza arrived in his home at 1 pm with a pistol, intending to kill him, the child himself and Sharon said Roberts caliber revolver .38 Away from him and fire in self-defence.
The case is being investigated by police, the State of Maine. There were no arrests.
“We continue to consider, as homicide,” said spokesman Steve McCausland department. The only living witness and daughter are Roberts. Investigators check the physical evidence at the scene and interviews with the former couple and their custody battle.
The parents shared custody of Savanna, each for a period of six months him. Roberts was assume that the child and Mendoza, it was planned for September, said his lawyer, Robert Montgomery.
His family rejects Roberts’ self-defense in history.
“There is no path to God, the green land, it would be for Guy’s house armed with a handgun,” said Mac Garcia of Lodi, Mendoza uncle. “Melissa was afraid of firearms. It was not a violent person, and they do nothing to harm oneself or the baby.”
Montgomery said the idea of Mendoza to his ex-friend at home, the attack on his own daughter has no meaning.
“She loved her daughter, she had tried to protect his daughter from him,” he said. “They fled after Tustin, far from it.” He said she sought at least four measures against Roberts, including temporary, that the act was, at the time of their death. He said it fired three older applications. “It was the classic abused woman, she withdrew and file,” said Montgomery.
Sharon acknowledged that his client is a Hells Angel, but says that the man of peace and a loving father, working hard at his family shell Shop. He said Roberts was amended by the State social workers, which keeps him the right to have.
Montgomery has not been in California too long ago Roberts, it was held in Tustin. He went to the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.
“Mr. Roberts came to our office with a court of Maine,” said Deputy District Attorney James Bacin. He said that his authenticity was examined and a mission of Orange County Judge Frederick Aquirre to return the child.
Bacin said he spoke by telephone with Mendoza.
“She knew she had to give up the child” and to organize a relative for the child to Roberts. Mendoza was in northern California after the funeral of his father.
Bacin said he could not remember, Mendoza any expression of concern for himself or the child. If it had, he said. even though he might have advised him to seek emergency for the temporary blocking of the court to abandon the child.
Montgomery said that in August 9, she asked a court protection in Maine.
“He has a gun on my head many times, and I fear that he or his friends hurts me,” said Mendoza to the application. A hearing has been published for the end of this month.
Mendoza was buried Friday after a mass burial in Lodi.
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