Carla White, right, an employee with the San Diego County Probation Department, speaks with her attorney after a court hearing Wednesday. White allegedly helped her son Hunter White leave the scene after he killed Javier Medina on Nov. 13, 2023, in San Diego County, California. (KNSD screenshot)
After her son allegedly killed a man, a probation office employee in California went to the scene and drove him away, hiding him in the back seat under a sunshade, according to prosecutors.
San Diego County sheriff’s deputies responded around 10 p.m. Nov. 13 for a report of a deadly assault with a weapon 400 block of East Bradley Avenue in El Cajon. They arrived to find 27-year-old Javier Medina suffering from gunshot wounds. Medical personnel took him to the hospital. He died on Nov. 15.
Detectives arrested 21-year-old Hunter White and 22-year-old Kristian Wolf for murder and attempted murder. Prosecutors on Wednesday charged White’s 53-year-old mother, Carla, for accessory after the fact and unauthorized furnishing of record or information, according to a criminal complaint reviewed by Law&Crime. Deputies have not given a motive or unveiled the relationship between the suspects and Medina.
NBC affiliate KNSD reported Carla White is a senior office assistant with the San Diego County Probation Department.
Prosecutors told the TV station after her son allegedly killed Medina, she drove to the scene and instructed him to hide under a sunshade in the back seat. The station also reported that Carla White tipped off her son a few days after the murder that cops were looking for him after she saw a confidential be-on-the-lookout flyer she was able to access through her job in the probation department.
“Any time that a person who is a suspect to a serious crime has a tipoff in advance that they are a suspect, it could give any person a chance to take steps to conceal aspects of the crime or to flee from the area,” San Diego County Deputy District Attorney Drew Garrison said in an interview with KNSD.
Garrison said people expect more from government employees.
“I think the public generally expects that their public servants will uphold their duties and oaths, and it’s important as an office that the district attorney’s office seeks to hold people accountable for the actions that they’ve taken,” Garrison told NBC 7.
The defendants have a court hearing scheduled for Feb. 28. Hunter White and Wolf are in the San Diego County Jail without bond, while Carla White posted bail.
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