Overview
- San Bernardino County prosecutors on Aug. 3 charged 66‑year‑old Jianquan Bo with murder and filed a special‑circumstance allegation tied to a kidnapping; he is jailed without bail and was scheduled for arraignment.
- Authorities say the attack began with a power outage at the victim’s Chino Hills home, and that the victim was shot, forced into a car trunk and driven away before deputies located the vehicle on July 29 and stopped it.
- Surveillance and sheriff’s investigators say the driver, Zhengfeng Bo, walked to the trunk and shot the bound victim there, and deputies then fired and killed the driver; the passenger surrendered and was arrested.
- Prosecutors are charging Jianquan Bo under California’s felony‑murder doctrine, which holds a participant criminally responsible for a death that results from certain felonies, and the special‑circumstance claim could allow pursuit of the death penalty.
- Investigators served a search warrant at the brothers’ Irvine home, seized evidence and are reviewing business records and litigation linked to Panshi Inc. and a disputed Pasadena property as they continue a multiagency probe while the victim’s family seeks support through a GoFundMe.