Overview
- Gerzon Chirinos of Sunnyvale and Alfonso Inestroza of Hollister were arrested March 5 in coordinated operations spanning two counties.
- Both men were booked into Santa Clara County Jail on murder charges after arrests by Sunnyvale detectives and SWAT without incident.
- Police identify Chirinos as the victim’s former partner and the father of her child, noting a prior 2018 domestic violence conviction involving another victim.
- Inestroza, also known as Franquin Inestroza-Martinez, had an outstanding New Jersey warrant in a separate murder case.
- Chirinos-Flores was found shot in her car Jan. 7 at Sunnyvale’s Plaza del Rey; the investigation remains active and her 5-year-old son is in child protective custody.