RIVERSIDE: Adult, juvenile arrested for attempted murder after car-to-car shooting
RIVERSIDE – Riverside PD officials announced the arrest of two people, including an adult male and a juvenile male, for attempted murder stemming from a shooting incident that happened Wednesday, Jan. 11. The car-to-car shooting happened in the area of Arlington Avenue and Coolwater Drive in Riverside.
Gage Hilton was arrested for attempted murder and other charges after a car-to-car shooting in Riverside.
After an investigation, authorities arrested three subjects, including, 24-year-old Gage Alexander Hilton and an unidentified juvenile male. Both are Riverside residents and both were booked into the Robert Presley Detention Center on suspicion of attempted murder and other charges. Christopher Ray Castillo, 22, also of Riverside, was arrested for outstanding warrants during the attempted murder investigation.
Officials responded to the area about 7:50 p.m., after a citizen called 911 to report the shooting.
When they arrived, “officers learned that a vehicle had pulled alongside another and fired several rounds from a handgun at it and fled,” according to an official Riverside PD press release.
After receiving information related to the three suspects and the vehicle they fled the scene of the shooting in, Riverside police officials sent out a broadcast to other nearby allied agencies to be on the lookout for those described in the original shooting incident.
Shortly afterwards, officers were notified that Riverside County sheriff deputies in the City of Norco had stopped a car matching the description of the vehicle described in the shooting incident. Deputies had detained three subjects who were inside the vehicle at the time of the traffic stop.
Christopher Castillo was arrested for several warrants after a car-to-car shooting in Riverside.
Riverside police officers responded to Norco, where deputies had stopped the suspect’s vehicle.
Officers brought the victim(s) of the shooting incident to the location of the traffic stop to conduct an in-field show up. “The suspects and suspect vehicle were positively identified,” the press release explained.
During a subsequent search of the vehicle, authorities located evidence related to the shooting as well as illegal narcotics.
Officials have not disclosed if the victims knew the suspects or what might have led to the shooting incident.
Based on the evidence and the eyewitness identifications of the two suspects involved in the shooting, officers arrested Hilton and the juvenile male, who was not identified due to his age.
Both were booked into the Robert Presley Detention Center on suspicion of attempted murder. Hilton was also booked for seven misdemeanor warrants for failure to appear on several other, unrelated charges.
Christopher Ray Castillo, 22, of Riverside, who was inside the car at the time of the shooting, was also arrested during the investigation. He was booked into jail for outstanding warrants.
An online jail records search revealed Hilton is being held in lieu of $1 million dollars bail. Castillo is being held in lieu of $10,000 bail.
Both men were scheduled to be arraigned at the Riverside Hall of Justice Jan 11.
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Trevor Montgomery spent 10 years in the U.S. Army as an Orthopedic Specialist before joining the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department in 1998. He was medically retired after losing his leg in an off-duty accident.
During his time with the sheriff’s department, Trevor worked at several different stations, including the Robert Presley Detention Center, the Southwest Station in Temecula, the Hemet Station, and the Lake Elsinore Station, along with many other locations.
Trevor’s assignments included Corrections, Patrol, DUI Enforcement, Boat and Personal Water-Craft based Lake Patrol, Off-Road Vehicle Enforcement, Problem Oriented Policing Team, Personnel and Background Investigations and he finished his career while working as a Sex Crimes and Child Abuse Investigator.
Trevor has been married for more than 26 years and was a foster parent to more than 60 children over 13 years. He is now an adoptive parent and has 13 children and 12 – soon to be 13 – grandchildren.