People v. Prestwood CA4/3

STATEMENT OF FACTS AND PROCEDURAL HISTORY

The victim, Elizabeth M., was 82 years old on September 28, 2020. On that date, she lived in a senior apartment building in Fontana. Elizabeth’s upstairs neighbor, Lorenza M., was a friend of her daughter, Crystal. Prestwood was also friends with Crystal, and knew both Elizabeth and Lorenza. On September 28, Prestwood entered Lorenza’s apartment without knocking. Prestwood said he needed to talk about his relationship with Crystal. According to Lorenza, he was acting very strangely, as if not in his right mind. Lorenza asked him to leave, followed him to Elizabeth’s apartment, and watched him enter. Elizabeth testified that Prestwood knocked at her door, told her somebody had beaten him up, and asked to come in to wash his hands. Elizabeth reluctantly let him in, telling him to wash and leave. After going to the kitchen sink and turning on the water, Prestwood asked Elizabeth for a towel, and she went to the couch using her walker to retrieve a towel.

2 Elizabeth asked him to leave, and at that point, Prestwood started to “pray and preach,” saying that he was going to kill her because demons were in the house, “going on and on.”…