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Fatal love triangle! California woman testifies against spurned lover who burst into her home to execute her husband and a neighbor -Tyshaun Drummond is charged with double-homicide

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"109460728"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-7abfa8360af841d6fd41468abaa3d021" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;292020&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong> Husband killed by wife&&num;8217&semi;s lover foretold impending killing&comma; the night before<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-aaaabd1016fcc3e30da50cc21e911ba6" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;292020&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Sergio Chavez-Perez&comma; 32&comma; was shot in front of his wife and their two-year-old around 7am on December 19&comma; 2021&comma; in Lakewood&comma; California <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-5b597bb33905f3aa32c4d535c996915f" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;292020&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Shooter was his wife Araceli Perez&&num;8217&semi;s boyfriend Tyshaun Drummond&comma; 42&comma; allegedly burst through the door and committed the double murder<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-070a4db072637e58bcb584b03fe390a1" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;292020&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Late the night before coming home drunk&comma; Chavez-Perez&comma; had told his wife&comma; &&num;8216&semi;Tonight&comma; somebody&&num;8217&semi;s going to die&&num;8217&semi; <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-dc06fcca3d3d78404447c5cea1608e5d" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;292020&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>The suspect&comma; Tyshaun Drummond is also accused of killing Nicholas Hardy&comma; 36&comma; who lived in an apt below the Perez family minutes after killing Chavez-Perez<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-86ff143b1a599c1bae3aff6c7f759330" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;292020&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Araceli Perez testified that she saw her lover&comma; Tyshaun Drummond&comma; standing with a gun near Nicholas Hardy&&num;8217&semi;s body <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-text-color has-link-color wp-elements-f561f7f26e58a91243b2b573919db243" style&equals;"color&colon;&num;292020&semi;font-size&colon;14px"><strong>Drummond who was arrested at the crime scene&comma; is charged with two counts first-degree homicide&comma; two counts unlawful weapons possession and Burglary<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;10&sol;Tyshaun-Drummond-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-469450" style&equals;"width&colon;841px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Tyshaun Drummond&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; allegedly burst through the door of the Perez home and killed Sergio Chavez-Perez and his two year-old daughter in front of his wife and minor children on Dec 19&comma; 2021&period; He had been having an illicit affair with the victim&&num;8217&semi;s wife<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p> &&num;8216&semi;Tonight&comma; somebody&&num;8217&semi;s going to die&comma;&&num;8217&semi; these are the five chilling words a California man spoke hours before he was allegedly murdered in his bedroom by his wife&&num;8217&semi;s lover&period; <br>Sergio Chavez-Perez&comma; 32&comma; was shot standing at the door of his bedroom shot in front of his spouse and their her two-year-old daughter around 7&period;00 am on December 19&comma; 2021&period; <br>His wife&&num;8217&semi;s boyfriend&comma;Tyshaun Drummond&comma; 42&comma; allegedly burst through the door of the apartment in Lakewood&comma; California and killed him&period; <br>The widow&comma; Araceli Perez&comma; said her two other children&comma; a 3-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter&comma; were present in the living room of the apartment when the deadly intrusion occurred&period;<br>It was déjà Vu the night prior&comma; Araceli testified in court on Wednesday Oct&period; 2&comma; as her husband coming home after a drunken night predicted the killings&period;<br>Chavez-Perez came home drunk as his family was sitting down to dinner&comma; &&num;8220&semi;came in&comma; grabbed some food and left the apartment&comma;&&num;8221&semi; <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;app&period;com&sol;story&sol;news&sol;local&sol;courts&sol;2024&sol;10&sol;03&sol;lakewood-murder-sergio-chavez-perez-death-wife-testifies&sol;75489028007&sol;">she said<&sol;a>&period; he then went to hang out with his brother and some other people she didn&&num;8217&semi;t know outside their apartment building&period; <br><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;10&sol;Araceli-Perez-1&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-469451" style&equals;"width&colon;847px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>After coming home after a drunken night out&comma; Chavez-Perez said five chilling words&colon; &&num;8216&semi;Tonight&comma; somebody&&num;8217&semi;s going to die&comma;&&num;8217&semi; his wife Araceli Perez&comma; &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; testified in court on Wednesday<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>Returning to the apartment around 7 or 8 p&period;m&period;&comma; Chavez-Perez went to the bathroom&comma; came out&comma; turned to his wife and said&comma; &&num;8220&semi;Tonight&comma; somebody&&num;8217&semi;s going to die&comma;&&num;8221&semi; after which he left the home with a knife&period; <br>That&&num;8217&semi;s when she warned Drummond via text that Chavez-Perez had left the home with a weapon&period;<br>Hardy and others were at a party in the downstairs apartment that night&period;<br>She had no idea where her husband went&period; However&comma; her husband returned home shortly after&comma; no later than 10 pm and crawled into bed with her where they watched television until they fell asleep&period; <br>It wasn&&num;8217&semi;t until the next morning when Drummond ambushed the couple that violence broke out&period; <br>Despite Chavez-Perez holding his hands up after Drummond burst into their home&comma; the armed intruder allegedly&comma; shot the homeowner dead&comma; the prosecutor said&period; <br>The couple&&num;8217&semi;s other two children&comma; 3 and 12&comma; were in the living room while the shooting occurred&period; <br>Drummond is also accused of shooting the couples downstairs neighbor&comma; Nicholas Hardy&period;<br>Hardy&comma; 36&comma; was killed after he was hit by five bullets&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;10&sol;Tyshaun-Drummond-right-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-469455" style&equals;"width&colon;839px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p><strong>Drummond &lbrack;right&rsqb;&comma; is also accused of killing Nicholas Hardy&comma; 36&comma; who was shot with five bullets&period; Perez testified that she saw Drummond standing with a gun near Hardy&&num;8217&semi;s body&period; Hardy lived in the apartment below them <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>The court heard that Araceli Perez and Tyshaun Drummond began their affair in early 2021&period; The pair first met in 2015 or 2016 at the Brettwood apartment complex&comma; on River Avenue in Lakewood&comma; where she was living with her family at the time&period;  <br>More recently&comma; he would visit the apartment directly downstairs from hers&comma; she said&period; In fact&comma;  Drummond was at the downstairs apartment on July 10&comma; 2021&comma; when she went there to fetch her children after they fled there because her husband had been abusive to her&comma; she said in her testimony&period; <br>Chronicling the affair&comma; the court was shown text messages and photos of Drummond and Perez&&num;8217&semi;s romantic relationship&comma; including an image of the illicit lovers kissing&period;<br>However the widow said&comma; she tried to break off her romance with her lover in September 2021&comma; because she wanted to &&num;8216&semi;rekindle&&num;8217&semi; her relationship with her husband&period; Around the same time&comma; her husband had accused her of having an affair&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<div class&equals;"wp-block-jetpack-tiled-gallery aligncenter is-style-rectangular"><div class&equals;""><div class&equals;"tiled-gallery&lowbar;&lowbar;gallery"><div class&equals;"tiled-gallery&lowbar;&lowbar;row"><div class&equals;"tiled-gallery&lowbar;&lowbar;col" style&equals;"flex-basis&colon;100&period;00000&percnt;"><figure class&equals;"tiled-gallery&lowbar;&lowbar;item"><img role&equals;"button" tabindex&equals;"0" aria-label&equals;"Open image 1 of 1 in full-screen"srcset&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i2&period;wp&period;com&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;10&sol;Tyshaun-Drummond-3&period;png&quest;strip&equals;info&&num;038&semi;w&equals;263&&num;038&semi;ssl&equals;1 263w" alt&equals;"" data-height&equals;"355" data-id&equals;"469464" data-link&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;&quest;attachment&lowbar;id&equals;469464" data-url&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;10&sol;Tyshaun-Drummond-3&period;png" data-width&equals;"263" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i2&period;wp&period;com&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;10&sol;Tyshaun-Drummond-3&period;png&quest;ssl&equals;1" data-amp-layout&equals;"responsive" tabindex&equals;"0" role&equals;"button" aria-label&equals;"Open image 1 of 1 in full-screen"&sol;><&sol;figure><&sol;div><&sol;div><&sol;div><&sol;div><&sol;div>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Drummond &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; the court heard desired to take his married lover away from her husband&comma; although she wanted to end the affair and concentrate on repairing her marriage<&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>As the affair continued&comma; Drummond would text Perez and call her his &&num;8216&semi;wife-to-be&&num;8217&semi; and &&num;8216&semi;future wife&&num;8217&semi; and wanted her to call him her &&num;8216&semi;future husband&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>&&num;8216&semi;Good morning my beautiful wife-to-be&comma;&&num;8217&semi; he wrote to her on November 30&comma; 2021&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;Good morning&comma; my love and future husband&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she replied&comma; according to Asbury Park Press&period; <br>He also warned her to delete their text messages &&num;8216&semi;in case he wants to check&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>On that fateful December day&comma; Perez remembers her late husband telling her to open the apartment door because his brother was knocking&comma; but when she did&comma; no one was there&period; <br>She waited a few minutes and within that span of time&comma; Drummond came running out of the downstairs apartment and up the stairs to hers&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;He looked at me&comma; he pushed me&comma; and he opened the door to my apartment&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she told the court&period; &&num;8216&semi;I went in after him and I said in English&colon; &&num;8220&semi;My kids are here&comma;&&num;8221&semi; and he went directly into the &lbrack;living&rsqb; room&period;&&num;8217&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<figure class&equals;"wp-block-image size-full is-resized"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;konniemoments&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2024&sol;10&sol;Araceli-Perez-2&period;png" alt&equals;"" class&equals;"wp-image-469458" style&equals;"width&colon;841px&semi;height&colon;auto"&sol;><&sol;figure>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p class&equals;"has-small-font-size"><strong>Araceli Perez also testified &lbrack;photo&rsqb;&comma; that her late husband was abusive to her&period; That she tried to break up with Drummond in September 2021 because she wanted to &&num;8216&semi;rekindle&&num;8217&semi; the relationship in her marriage&comma; about the same time her husband accused her of having an affair <&sol;strong><&sol;p>&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;&NewLine;<p>She told the court she thought Drummond had just come to fight&comma; but then she watched him make his way to the bedroom&comma; where Chavez-Perez was standing in the doorway&comma; she heard him tell her lover to &&num;8216&semi;calm down&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>After that&comma; a gunshot rang out and Drummond fled the scene&period;  <br>&&num;8216&semi;I heard the sound of the shot&period; I covered my ears&period; I looked toward the floor&period; I saw the shell of the bullet on the floor and&comma; at that time&comma; Tyshaun left&comma;&&num;8217&semi; a tearfully Araceli testified&period;<br>Desperately trying to save her husband&comma; who was no longer breathing&comma; Araceli said shed called 911 in hysterics as his &&num;8216&semi;blood was flowing out at a high rate&period;&&num;8217&semi; <br>When she opened the front door again to see if police had arrived&comma; she noticed Hardy&&num;8217&semi;s body lying on the hallway floor and Drummond standing outside with a gun in his left hand&period; <br>&&num;8216&semi;That is the day I found out that he is left-handed&comma;&&num;8217&semi; she testified&period; <br>According to the police report&comma; officers from the Lakewood Township Police Department were summoned to an apartment complex on River Avenue for a report of shots having been fired&period;  Police Dispatch was able to supply the Officers with a description of the suspect who fired the shots&period;  <br>Responding cops located an individual matching the description&comma; later identified as Drummond&comma; in front of the apartment complex&period;  <br>Officers ordered the male figure to lay on the ground&period; The subject had to be subdued with a taser after he refused to comply and when officers entered the apartment building&comma; they discovered two deceased males&comma; Nicholas Hardy and Sergio Chavez-Perez&comma; both men were shot in the head&period; <br>The man in custody&comma; Tyshaun Drummond&comma; was identified as the person who shot both victims&period;<br>Drummond has been held in the Ocean County Jail since his release from a local hospital on December 21&comma; 2021&period;<br>Drummond sat calmly in the courtroom as the married ex-girlfriend he allegedly widowed testified&comma; for the prosecution&period; <br>He has been charged for the men&&num;8217&semi;s death&comma; as well as&comma; for possession of a weapon for an unlawful purpose&comma; unlawful possession of a weapon&comma; and burglary&period; <&sol;p>&NewLine;

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