An avid outdoorsman, the 50-year-old frequently loaded them up in his fifth-wheel for camping trips to Arizona. He sat them on the back of his Harley-Davidson motorcycle to ride through the hills above Fullerton. They spent every Fourth of July, Easter, Thanksgiving and Christmas gathered at his home in northeast Anaheim.
The suspect, 44-year-old Aminadab Gaxiola Gonzalez, is facing multiple counts of murder and attempted murder, along with felony enhancements. Gonzalez had two children with a former employee of Unified Homes, the Tovar family said. As a father, Tovar had a strict set of rules for his five children. He expected them to eat well, get good grades and work hard. He was much softer with his six grandchildren.
Father and daughter shared a love for the outdoors and a passion for their business. She worked for him as a transaction manager at Unified Homes for a decade. Her husband, Armando Raygoza, works on the construction side of the business.But the couple’s story began long before they became colleagues. Friendship blossomed into love inside a calculus classroom at Fullerton College. Genevieve Raygoza captured Armando’s attention the moment she stepped into the classroom.
For Armando, it’s the everyday moments — the bike rides to the park with their boys or the way she lay next to them reading bedtime stories night after night — that mean the most.“We were supposed to grow old together,” he said, his voice breaking with emotion. “Luis would always tell us to enjoy life because we don’t know how long we have together, but we didn’t think it would be this short.”
“Honestly, this was difficult to take in,” she said. “She was an excellent person that I had the luck of knowing. This was honestly difficult news, we’re living in such difficult times.”The day of the shooting just happened to be one of the days that Matthew Farias, 9, accompanied his mom to work at Unified Homes instead of going to day care, his aunt Rosie Farias said Friday.
Thank you for dedicating a piece about the victims. Do we know anything about the gunmen yet?