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Prosecution to re-file charges in Ruby Montelongo killing

Mendocino County Public Broadcasting | By Eileen Russell
Published November 10, 2023 at 10:56 AM PST
A young woman wearing a traditional necklace and a red cape smiles.
Marline Fulwider
Ruby Montelongo last year at a leadership conference for tribal youth.

Sixteen-year-old Ruby Montelongo's accused killer is free, as the prosecution prepares to re-file charges in the case against her. The suspect is also a teenaged girl, who has been awaiting trial in juvenile hall since April 15, the day after Ruby's body was found beaten to death in a field on the Round Valley reservation.
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