RivCo Woman Charged With Fatally Stabbing Former Boyfriend

RIVERSIDE, CA — A 24-year-old Moreno Valley woman accused of fatally stabbing her ex-boyfriend during an argument in his car parked next to a Riverside business made her initial court appearance Friday.

Brittany Juarez was arrested Tuesday following a Riverside Police Department investigation into the death of 25-year-old Robert Emilio Minjares of Moreno Valley.

Juarez is charged with murder and a sentence-enhancing allegation of using a deadly weapon -- a knife -- in the commission of a felony.

She appeared before Riverside County Superior Court Judge O.G. Magno, who appointed her a public defender and scheduled her arraignment for June 24 at the Riverside Hall of Justice.

The defendant is being held on $1 million bail at the Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside.

According to Officer Javier Cabrera, about 3 a.m. Tuesday, Juarez and Minjares were involved in a heated exchange as they sat in his car in the 2000 block of Alessandro Boulevard, near Mission Grove Parkway.

"At some point during the argument, she produced a knife and stabbed him in the chest," Cabrera said.

She then got behind the wheel of the vehicle and drove him to Riverside University Medical Center in Moreno Valley, where he died minutes later, Cabrera said.

She remained at the hospital, where staff called 911, summoning sheriff's deputies, who turned the investigation over to Riverside police homicide detectives after confirming that the alleged attack had happened in the city, according to Cabrera.

She was booked into jail a few hours later.

The reason for the argument between her and Minjares was not disclosed.

Juarez has no documented prior felony convictions in Riverside County.

—City News Service