Mass shooting mystery in Mojave Desert: A pleading text, slaughter in an RV, many questions
LOS ANGELES — The last message John Denardo received from his daughter came from a phone number he didn't recognize.
Her cellphone had been stolen, she wrote, but she promised to see him in the next few days with a gift in time for his birthday.
About a week later, Faith Leighanne Rose Asbury was the only victim still breathing when paramedics entered an RV on a dirt lot in Mojave where four people had been shot. The 20-year-old was rushed to Antelope Valley Hospital, where she died the next day.
Asbury and the others — Martina Barraza Jr., 33; Darius Travon Canada, 31; and Anna Marie Hester, 34 — had eked out an existence for years on the fringes of society in the Mojave Desert. Their killings have gone relatively unremarked, lost in the noise of a deadly wave of American gun violence.
The Kern County Sheriff's Office has released ; no arrests have been made, and there is no description of a suspect or suspects. The victims' relatives said they've been given no updates on the status of the case,
