“My son is one of the least fearful men you will ever know.”
Steven Troy Stewart started sleeping with a shotgun after someone fired through a window into his living room last month.
He defended himself with that gun Monday evening, shooting at a man who broke through his front window carrying a gun and a gasoline bomb.
That man, Ulises Espino, later died, and three other men have been arrested in a plot to break into Stewart’s Rosedale area home and burn it down, Sheriff’s Sgt. Ed Komin said.
Stewart said he doesn’t know the men or have any idea why he was targeted. Detectives don’t know why either.
Alberto Torres, 18, Cesar Montoya, 23, and Jesus Delgado Estrada, 29, were arrested on suspicion of murder, attempted murder, attempted arson and conspiracy, according to Komin. Torres also was arrested on suspicion of participating in a criminal street gang.