Grandmother's missed pickup leads to grim discovery in church parking lot

A California grandma vanished aft failing to prime up her grandchild, sparking a hopeless hunt that ended days aboriginal with the grim find of her assemblage wrong her car successful a religion parking batch and execution charges against her son.

Emmanuel Wesley, 23, of Santa Ana, is charged with execution successful the decease of his 61-year-old mother, Theresa Jones.

Prosecutors allege helium changeable her doubly successful the backmost portion she sat down the instrumentality of her conveyance extracurricular the Fullerton Police Department connected the Fourth of July earlier moving her assemblage into the rider spot and driving away.

Jones' disappearance archetypal raised alarms connected July 7 erstwhile she failed to prime up 1 of her grandchildren and stopped answering repeated calls from loved ones, according to prosecutors.

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Theresa Jones' household said the 61-year-old was known for her infectious property and unwavering devotion to her children and grandchildren. (GoFundMe)

Four days later, connected July 11, officers recovered Jones' assemblage wrong her vehicle, which had been abandoned successful the parking batch of a religion successful Fullerton. Prosecutors allege she had been changeable doubly successful the back.

Investigators accidental surveillance cameras captured the moments surrounding the killing.

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Exterior of the Fullerton Police Department, wherever investigators accidental Theresa Jones was fatally changeable earlier her conveyance was driven away. (Photo by Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images)

Video allegedly shows Jones pulling up extracurricular the Fullerton Police Department astir 2:46 p.m. connected July 4 with Wesley riding successful the backmost seat.

Authorities accidental Jones abruptly slumped implicit successful the driver's spot earlier Wesley climbed retired of the backmost seat, pushed her assemblage into the rider seat, got down the instrumentality and drove away.

"The decease of immoderate quality being is simply a tragedy," Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said. "For idiosyncratic to termination their ain parent is different level of depravity. We volition bash everything we tin to prosecute justness for Ms. Jones and everyone who loved her."

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Theresa Jones is pictured holding a babe successful a household photograph shared aft her death. (GoFundMe)

Jones' household remembered the 61-year-old arsenic a devoted Christian whose religion shaped each portion of her life.

"She loved her household fiercely, ever putting the needs of her children and grandchildren supra her own," the household wrote successful a GoFundMe created to assistance screen ceremonial expenses. "To cognize Theresa was to emotion her."

Loved ones described Jones arsenic smart, comic and afloat of life, saying her vibrant property earned her the nickname "Cardi B."

The fundraiser recalls the family's agonizing hunt aft Jones unexpectedly failed to prime up her beloved grandchild, ending with the heartbreaking find of her assemblage a week later.

"We privation to grant the beauteous beingness Theresa lived and the immense emotion she poured into the world," the household wrote. "The daze of her nonaccomplishment has near a profound, bare abstraction successful the hearts of everyone who loved her."

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Wesley has pleaded not blameworthy and remains held without bail successful the Orange County Jail.

If convicted of execution and the firearm enhancement, prosecutors accidental helium faces up to 50 years to beingness successful prison.