A 19-year-old woman who was kidnapped from a Southern California park and killed appears to have been randomly targeted, according to police.
Gabriel Esparza, 20, was arrested Monday for the shooting and kidnapping of 19-year-old Andrea Vazquez, Whittier police said Tuesday.
Shortly after midnight on Sunday morning, Vazquez and a man were at the parking stalls area of Penn Park in Whittier when an armed person approached their car and shot at them, according to police.
The man who was with Vazquez -- her boyfriend, according toLos Angeles ABC station KABC -- ran away, and when he got back to his car, Vazquez was missing, police said.
The 19-year-old's body was found Monday night in a vegetation field in Moreno Valley, authorities said.
19-year-old woman kidnapped from park and killed was allegedly randomly targeted: Police
A 19-year-old woman who was kidnapped from a Southern California park and killed appeared to have been randomly targeted.
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