Siblings living out of Prius planned to wipe out sister who tried stopping them from leeching off their mother, getting her house: DA

A brace of siblings from California allegedly had overmuch bigger plans aft sidesplitting a antheral truthful they could slumber successful his SUV.

Siblings Cindy Kim, 59, and John Chong Moon, 55, are some charged with second-degree murder, conspiracy to perpetrate murder, and attempted robbery successful transportation with the decease of 66-year-old Cuauhtemoc Garcia. Garcia was fatally changeable connected Feb. 25, 2025, allegedly by Moon erstwhile helium and his sister tried to unit him to manus implicit the keys to his SUV aft he parked it adjacent a motorcycle path successful Cerritos, California. According to prosecutors, Kim and Moon wanted the SUV due to the fact that they were surviving retired of a Toyota Prius, and they wanted a bigger conveyance to slumber in.

But Garcia's alleged execution was lone a information of the plans that Kim and Moon seemingly had for improving their surviving situation.

According to reporting by The Orange County Register, a preliminary proceeding was held successful aboriginal May during which prosecutors alleged that Moon and Kim had plans to termination their older sister, that sister's family, and 1 of their mother's neighbors. Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Detective Yoon Nam reportedly testified during the proceeding that constabulary recovered respective notebooks that contained penning by some Moon and Kim that outlined their beliefs astir their household members and the steps they were allegedly taking to destruct them.

In 1 notebook, Moon reportedly wrote that helium and Kim had to "scrape, struggle, conflict to marque rent connected workplace 1 chamber portion (their mother) lives successful luxury, comfortableness lifestyle!" Moon besides reportedly wrote that helium and Kim were meant to "Get our 'last bastion' of wealthiness … by immoderate means necessary! Bogart our mode backmost and unit her to merchantability the house!"

Nam testified that Moon and Kim besides targeted the sister and her family, citing 1 introduction written by Kim successful November 2024 that allegedly stated, "We are expected to bid our firearm to instrumentality down the [family]." The pursuing month, she allegedly wrote, "Stole immoderate bullets astatine Sportsman's."

The sister reportedly testified that she had gotten restraining orders to support their parent from Moon and Kim successful 2016 and 2022. The sister said her younger siblings took vantage of their parent and accused them of forging their mother's signature connected a deed-transfer papers signing implicit her house. The sister besides said Moon past tried to merchantability their mother's location connected Craigslist.

On Feb. 25, 2025, prosecutors said Moon and Kim were connected the lookout for a Honda Pilot oregon a Toyota 4Runner that they could bargain and slumber in. They soon saw Garcia's 4Runner propulsion into the parking batch astatine Don Knabe Community Regional Park connected Bloomfield Avenue successful Cerritos. After Garcia near the conveyance to instrumentality a locomotion connected the motorcycle path, they allegedly made their move. The siblings allegedly followed Garcia, and Moon held him astatine gunpoint portion the brace demanded helium manus implicit his keys. When Garcia refused, Moon allegedly gunned him down.

Prosecutors said that Kim wrote successful 1 of her notebooks, "Dirty deed Cerritos Bloomfield" connected the time Garcia was killed.

A witnesser told constabulary that helium saw 2 radical matching the siblings' statement dumping Garcia's assemblage successful a ungraded embankment.

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Surveillance video captured Moon and Kim adjacent the area, and the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department asked the nationalist for help identifying them. An anonymous tipster believed the brace were the aforesaid radical from a viral TikTok video, successful which Moon and Kim reportedly hurled radical slurs astatine customers astatine a Panera Bread restaurant. Local Fox affiliate KTTV said the video was taken conscionable days earlier Garcia's homicide.

Moon's defence lawyer said during the proceeding his lawsuit had "a assortment of aesculapian and intelligence wellness conditions." He besides said his lawsuit told undercover constabulary that helium was "just astatine the incorrect spot astatine the incorrect time."

Moon and Kim were taken into custody connected March 9, 2025. Moon is additionally charged with evading a bid serviceman and 2 misdemeanor counts of unlawful firearm activity. They are some being held without bail. Both siblings are owed backmost successful tribunal connected July 22.