Prosecutors identify four killed in 2024 Lancaster home shooting
The Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office named the four people fatally shot at a home on North Tabler Avenue on Nov. 16, 2024.
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Aug 19, 2026, 5:56 p.m. ETFirst report
Four killed in 2024 Lancaster home shooting; man pleads guilty
Four people were shot and killed at a home on North Tabler Avenue in Lancaster on Nov. 16, 2024, the Los Angeles County District Attorney's Office said. Prosecutors said the occupants of the home had gone to bed when the shooting occurred.
Prosecutors identified those killed as Janvi Maquindang, 21; Christine Aca-ac, 25; Edwin Garcia, 24; and Matthew Montebello, 21. The district attorney's office gave the toll as four killed when it announced the guilty plea Friday.
The district attorney's office identified the man who pleaded guilty as Manuel Diego Sandoval, 21. Prosecutors said Sandoval waited outside the North Tabler Avenue home until the occupants had gone to bed, then entered and fatally shot four people.
According to the district attorney's office, Sandoval is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 17 and will receive life in prison without the possibility of parole.
District Attorney Nathan J. Hochman said: "The defendant was jilted when he broke up with his boyfriend and then did something unimaginable when he killed four innocent people." He also said: "This was a calculated act of violence that left a void for the victims' families that can never be filled."
Deputies from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department responded to the scene, according to the district attorney's office.
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