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Man suspected of killing wife in Montebello turns himself in to authorities

By Corina Knoll
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A 29-year-old Tustin man suspected of fatally shooting his estranged wife with a handgun turned himself into the Whittier Police Department early Sunday and was arrested on suspicion of murder, authorities said.

Authorities had been searching for Arthur Andrew Andrade since Saturday about 8:30 a.m., when he allegedly shot Soria Esperanza, 24, multiple times in the parking lot of her place of employment in the 100 block of West Washington Boulevard in Montebello, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said in a statement.

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Esperanza, who suffered injuries to her upper body, was pronounced dead at the scene. The two, who were separated and had been in the process of getting a divorce, were arguing just before the shooting began.

Andrade turned himself in at 1 a.m. He was taken to the Montebello police station and is being held in lieu of $1-million bail. Authorities are still searching for the weapon and the vehicle Andrade allegedly used to flee the scene.

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-- Corina Knoll

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Corina Knoll

Corina Knoll is a former reporter for the Metro section of the Los Angeles Times. She was on the team that investigated corruption in Bell — which led to the paper’s 2011 Pulitzer Prize for public service — and went on to cover the trials of the city’s former officials. She later contributed to the paper’s coverage of the San Bernardino terror attack that won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for breaking news. As a regional reporter, she wrote features about the San Gabriel Valley and the Westside. During her courts beat, she covered high-profile criminal cases and civil disputes, including the Jackson family vs AEG and Bryan Stow vs LA Dodgers. She and two colleagues investigated sheriff’s deputies whose histories of misconduct landed them on the department’s top-secret Brady list. She left The Times in January 2019. Raised in the Midwest, she is a graduate of Macalester College.

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