LOS ANGELES—A 20-year-old man was ordered Tuesday to stand trial on murder charges stemming from the killing of a man during a robbery along Angeles Crest Highway and the shooting deaths of two people inside a parked car during an attempted hold-up in Rancho Palos Verdes two days later.
Following a hearing that lasted about 1 1/2 days, Superior Court Judge Ronald S. Coen rejected a request by Marco Antonio Hernandez’s attorney, Damon Hobdy, to dismiss the case against his client.
The judge also rejected similar requests by attorneys representing four other defendants—two of whom are charged along with Hernandez in the July 22, 2023, killing of Jesse Munoz along Angeles Crest Highway and the other two who are charged along with him in the July 24, 2023, deaths of Jorge Ramos and Taylor Raven Whittaker, who were shot inside a parked Subaru in the 7000 block of Palos Verdes Drive….