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Criminal Records - Most Wanted |
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Profile |
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Name: Ronald Patrick Hoffman
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Race: White |
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Date of Death: Jul 25, 2006 |
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Age at Time of Death: 37 |
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Height: 5'10" |
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Hair (Color, Description, Facial Hair): Brown |
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Eyes (Color and Correction): Brown |
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Wanted for :
Armed Robbery, Riverside, CA;
Apr 19, 2004
Murder, Riverside, CA;
Jan 08, 2004
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Case Story |
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Cops Close Murder Investigation |
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The Riverside Police department closed the books on a three-year-old murder investigation into the execution-style murder of a Brinks armored truck guard in January 2004. Detectives confirmed that Ronald Patrick Hoffman was the man who killed 28-year-old Corey Medlock during a robbery at a Food-For-Less store in Riverside, California.
Cops reported that at the time, dozens of employees and shoppers saw a robber wearing a wig, sunglasses, and a baseball cap run towards a rear exit with a bag after he shot Medlock in the head. Hoffman had made out with a sack filled with $3.000 that was meant for the grocery store. Medlock succumbed to his injuries the next day.
Hoffman's getaway car, a stolen red 2002 Ford Taurus, was recovered the next day and would ultimately play a role in naming Hoffman as the killer two years later.
On July 25, 2006, cops say that Hoffman showed up at a grocery store, brandishing a gun, and threatening customers. Sheriff's deputies responded and a brief car chase ensued with Hoffman dying in a gunfight when the chase ended. Hoffman's remains, his shoes in particular, would provide just the evidence that cops needed to solve the armored car case. Utilizing police dogs, cops were able to match the scents from the 2004 getaway car to Hoffman's shoes at the time of his death. |
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Unknown Robber Targets Grocery Stores - Is He a Killer? |
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Up until Hoffman's death, police believed that the same man had struck three times in two states in less than six months and they were asking for the public's help to identify and catch him.
On the morning of December 8, 2003, a white male armed with a semi-automatic pistol is clearly seen on video surveillance tape entering a Fiesta grocery store in Dallas, Texas. Wearing gloves and what appeared to be a dark wig, the suspect laid in wait for the Loomis Fargo driver to arrive with his cash delivery.
Police say the suspect methodically approached the driver and brandished a gun. According to officials, the suspect ordered the driver to remove his glasses, sprayed him in the face with pepper spray, grabbed the driver's satchel containing an undisclosed amount of cash, exited through the rear of the store and fled in a 2002 Ford Taurus.
On January 8, 2004, Corey Medlock, a Brinks armored car driver, was shot and killed while delivering cash to a Food-4-Less supermarket in Riverside, Calif. Just like the robbery in Dallas, the suspect escaped through an emergency exit in the rear of the store.
The FBI believed the Riverside killer may be the same man wanted in Dallas. Police said that the Riverside murder suspect bore a striking resemblance to the Dallas robber and that similar disguises were used in both cases. With Hoffman's death and subsequent identification as the Riverside Armored Car Killer, authorities realized that the two crimes were done by two different people. |
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