LAKE MATHEWS – (INT) – Up to six masked gunmen are suspected of staging a violent robbery at a rural home where marijuana was being grown.

Preliminary information released Friday by the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department showed that several victims were bound and one was fatally shot.

The bandits absconded with several marijuana plants and fled from the crime scene on Santa Rosa Mine Road Thursday evening.

No information was released on the legality of the marijuana cultivation, descriptions of the suspects and the identities of the victims.

Story Date: June 18, 2018