Roberta Marie Romero, 24

May 11, 2009, 5:19 a.m.

Roberta Romero, a 24-year-old Latina from West Covina, was shot several times and killed on Monday, May 11, according to the Los Angeles County coroner's office.

Romero's body was found in the street near the intersection of Glenpark Street and Bellevue Avenue in Pomona about 5 a.m., according to the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. Police had responded to a report of a shooting.

Ramiro Juan Alvarez, 24, and Rodney Coronel Perez, 28, were arrested in connection with Romero's death, officials said.

Alvarez has been charged with murder and is scheduled to be arraigned on June 3. Perez has also been charged with murder, as well as evading an officer and willful disregard, according to the Los Angeles County district attorney's office.

San Gabriel Valley Tribune story: Local men suspected in West Covina woman's death

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Are you two more sympathetic because she is a woman? Because if I read the story correctly she was involved in this story up to her eye brows so I don’t understand why she would conjure up more empathy from you? From what I was able to understand she wasn’t exactly some innocent who was kidnapped and driven to another city and shot she was an involved member of that society who would probably be sitting right where her sister sat on any given day. She just happened to be the one who for her own self preserving reasons became a witness. I guess I find is very sexist that this woman would get so much empathy because of her sex, when she would take the same gun that was used on her and use it on either one of you. Interesting that’s all…very interesting.

— Roxanne Dec. 4, 2014 at 2:36 p.m.