SANTA ANA – An 18-year-old Cudahy man was charged Tuesday with gunning down a woman in her vehicle in Anaheim.
Jerry Gilbert Gutierrez was charged with murder and discharge of a gun at a vehicle, both felonies, with sentencing enhancements for fatal discharge of a gun.
Gutierrez is accused of killing 48-year-old Charlene Lynn Zuazo of Anaheim on March 4.
The Anaheim Police Department responded just after 8 p.m. last Tuesday to a call of shots fired at Cypress and Vine streets, Sgt. Matt Sutter said. Another call of a car crash came in “simultaneously” in the 700 block of North Vine Street, about a half-mile away, Sutter said.
Officers found the driver of the car that crashed had suffered gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene, Sutter said. When the officers went back to the scene of the shots fired, they found evidence of a shooting and “put two and two together” and determined the victim got shot and drove a short distance before crashing into a parked car, Sutter added.
Authorities have not provided a motive for the attack.
