The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office charged three men with the robbery, kidnapping and murder of Julian Hamori-Andrade, 20, of Glendora on May 31. One of the suspects, Francisco Amigon, may be a student at Citrus College. Another suspect, Matthew Luzon, 21, is missing.
Amigon’s Facebook page says he studies at Citrus College and “Started School at Citrus College in 2016.” The office of admissions and records at Citrus College declined to release Amigon’s enrollment status.
Cathy Napoli, admissions and records coordinator, said the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act protects the student’s information. However, Citrus College academic policy 5040 grants access to “directory information,” which includes the name of students and dates of attendance.
The registrar Brian Dean said to contact Gerald Sequeira, the dean of enrollment services, when Sequeira returns to work on Monday.
The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s office said in a statement each suspect was charged with “three special circumstance allegations of lying in wait and murder during the commission of a kidnapping and robbery.” The charges carry the penalty of death or life in prison without the possibility of parole. A motive for the crimes has not been determined.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff discovered Hamori-Andrade’s body by on a hillside of Azusa canyon at 5:55 p.m. May 30.
Investigators found blood splattered on walls and pooled on the ground of the residence of Matthew Luzon, in the 6100 block of Goodway Drive in Azusa, less than two miles from campus.
Officers at the San Dimas station of the Los Angeles County Sheriff responded to a disturbance call by another tenant at the Azusa address on May 28.
The sheriff’s helicopter that circled over the Citrus College campus 3 p.m. May 29, searched the San Gabriel national forest for the missing body of Hamori-Andrade. Citrus College Campus Safety Chief Officer Todd Dickerson said the sheriff’s helicopter circling campus was unrelated to the strong-arm robbery that occurred on campus about two hours earlier that same day.
Amigon’s public Facebook profile photo displays him with a glass bong and flipping off the camera. Other photos show the 19-year-old holding up gang related hand signs including one meaning “Westside.”
Amignon’s Facebook friends list another suspect, Jacob Elmendorf, 19 years-old, and resident of La Verne.
Hercules Balaskas, 18 years-old resident of Glendora was the fourth suspect charged. Balaskas is accused of using a metal chair as a deadly weapon.
A witness called the police upon noticing the suspect’s vehicle in Azusa Canyon. LA county Sheriff’s Deputy Trina Schrader said in a statement the victim may have been alive when he was driven up San Gabriel Canyon Road “where his body was thrown over the side of the road.”
“This case remains a very active investigation no further information is available for release at this time,” Schrader said in a statement.
Amigon, Balaskas, and Elmendorf are scheduled to be arraigned on June 6 in Department N of the Los Angeles County Superior Court, Pomona Branch.
