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A parolee was charged with murder Monday in the June shooting death of a mankilled inside his tentwhilehe camped with his daughtersin a California state park, PEOPLE confirms.
The victim,Tristan Beaudette, 35, was fatally shot on June 22 in Malibu Creek State Park. He was sleeping near his daughters, who were in the tent with him, when he was shot. His daughters were not injured.
The suspect,Anthony Rauda, 42, was also charged with ten counts of attempted murder and five counts of second-degree burglary, according to a Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office news release. Two of the attempted murder charges relate to Beaudette’s two daughters; the rest of the charges are not related to Beaudette’s case.
He was sentenced in mid-December to 180 days in county jail for gun and ammunition violations and was in custody when the murder charges came down.
Rauda, they say, acted alone.
“No similar crimes have been reported in the area since the October 2018, arrest of Rauda,” the sheriff’s news release states.
Suspect Allegedly Shot at Campers and Motorists For Year-and-a-Half
In one of the cases, Rauda allegedly wounded a man who was sleeping in a hammock in the Malibu State Park area in November 2016. Less than a week later, he allegedly fired into the sleeping area of another vehicle.
Police also allege Rauda shot into vehicles on three different occasions in 2017, including a Tesla on Las Virgenes Road on June 18, 2018. No one was injured.
However, four days later, authorities say Rauda allegedly fatally shot Beaudette.
Beaudette’s fatal shooting in the park rattled campground regulars who enjoyed the park’s relative safety and close proximity to L.A. and its tranquil hiking trails.
Police believed that Beaudette — a former researcher at the pharmaceutical company Allergan — was shot in the head while he slept.
Shortly after the killing, police announced they were also looking into seven unsolved reports of gunfire in the area outside and around the park over the previous two years.
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Anthony Rauda.
Sources toldNBC 4that preliminary ballistics testing showed that more than one type of gun was used in those shootings.
Prior to the shooting, Beaudette and his wife had been preparing to relocate from Southern California to the Bay Area.
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Anthony Rauda.Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
Police arrested Rauda in October on a remote hillside in Malibu Creek State Park one day after the Agoura Hills/Calabasas Community Center was broken into and multiple items were stolen from a vending machine.
He was spotted after search crews observed fresh boot prints in the ground leading up to a steep ravine. The crews followed the prints about 50 yards before hearing movement in the brush and then seeing a man in black clothing walking quickly “who resembled the suspect in the burglaries,” Los Angeles County Sheriff Jim McDonnell said at a press conference at the time.
Rauda is scheduled to be arraigned this afternoon in a Los Angeles County Superior Court. It was not immediately clear if he has a lawyer who could comment on the charges against him.
source: people.com
