Glendale man wanted for attempted murder found dead in Angeles National Forest

Thursday, October 17, 2019

A Glendale man suspected of viciously attacking his ex-fiancée and her mother with a hammer in July was found dead last month after crashing his car in the Angeles National Forest, authorities said on Tuesday.

The wreckage of Brian Cruz’s pickup truck was spotted by a Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department helicopter on Sept. 26 several hundred feet down an embankment near Big Tujunga Canyon Road and Angeles Forest Highway.

Inside the vehicle was a severely decomposed body, according to Sgt. Dan Suttles with the Glendale Police Department.

“We suspected it was Cruz, but the state of decomposition was so much that we weren’t able to readily identify him,” he said.

The body was found the day after authorities offered a $15,000 reward for information leading to his arrest, thinking he had fled to Mexico.

Authorities wouldn’t know for sure it was Cruz until Oct. 11 when the Los Angeles County medical examiner’s office confirmed it was him.

Suttles said it is unknown what caused Cruz to go down the embankment because any evidence that would give an idea of what happened was long gone by the time his vehicle was found.

https://www.latimes.com/socal/glendale-news-press/news/story/2019-10-16/glendale-man-wanted-for-attempted-murder-found-dead-in-angeles-national-forest

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Glendale man wanted for attempted murder found dead in Angeles National Forest