A Nov. 16 preliminary hearing has been set for Luis Alberto Ruiz, 27, of Chula Vista, who is charged with killing two people in July in separate shootings in Palm City and Chula Vista.
Ruiz is accused of fatally shooting Roberto Soria, 25, and Luaiza Burgos-De La Torre, 24, who is also known as Pamela Burgos. He has pleaded not guilty in Chula Vista Superior Court and remains in jail.
Soria was shot at 11 p.m. on July 9 while walking with a friend in the 2600 block of Gould Lane in the Palm City neighborhood. Soria’s friend, 22, was also wounded, and Ruiz is charged with attempted murder in that shooting.
About an hour later, Burgos was shot while walking with a male companion in the 300 block of Quintard Avenue in Chula Vista. The companion was not injured.
Deputy District Attorney Matthew Williams said nothing about the motive has been discussed in court or how the two shootings are connected. Ruiz was already in jail on another matter when authorities filed the murder charges against him on Sept. 11.
