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Coverup In RivCo Girl's Alleged Killing: 1 Brother Pleads Guilty
Gary Shover admitted the felony count under a plea deal. His brother Owen is accused of killing Aranda Briones. Her body has not been found.
patch.com
3/7/24
MORENO VALLEY, CA — A man who aided his younger brother in trying to cover up the alleged killing of a 16-year-old Moreno Valley girl pleaded guilty Thursday to being an accessory after the fact and was immediately sentenced to a year in jail.
Gary Anthony Shover, 27, of Hesperia admitted the felony count under a plea agreement with the Riverside County District Attorney's Office. Shover was originally charged with first-degree murder and a special-circumstance allegation of lying in wait, but after a 2022 preliminary hearing, a judge dismissed those counts, and the accessory charge was substituted for him alone.
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According to sheriff's officials, the brothers were identified as suspects in Briones' disappearance and death following a weeks-long investigation that ended in February 2019, when the siblings were taken into custody without incident at their residence on Grevillea Street, near Old Ranch Road.
Briones was last seen on Jan. 13, 2019, in Moreno Valley Community Park, at the intersection of Cottonwood Avenue and Frederick Street, where she had been visiting with friends and relatives.
Sheriff's Lt. Chris Durham said at the time that Owen Shover, a friend of Briones from Moreno Valley High School, was the last person to have seen her alive.
Durham said investigators spoke to Shover, who allegedly claimed he had dropped Briones at the park, where she was picked up by somebody in a four-door sedan. But Durham said that video images from surveillance cameras in the area conflicted with Shover's story.