A California mother of six who was awarded $4.9 million in damages after police shot and killed her unarmed 16-year-old son has been using the money to buy guns, prosecutors say - which her 14-year-old son then sold to gang members.
Christina Lopez, 42, was arrested at her home in Madera, 20 miles north west of Fresno.
Christina Lopez, a 42-year-old mother of six, has been arrested and accused of using a $4.9 million settlement for the killing of her son to buy guns for her 14-year-old
She was one of 14 people detained following a three-month-long investigation into a July murder carried out by members of the Calwa gang. The 14 arrested were mainly teenagers - the youngest only 13.
Lopez faces felony charges of conspiracy to provide firearms to a minor for the benefit of a street gang, child endangerment and conspiracy to provide a firearm to a gang member.
Prosecutors said that Lopez used the cash from an April settlement with Fresno police - the largest in the city's history - to buy guns.
'As a mother and a prosecutor and a citizen of this county for my entire life, this is some of the most despicable behavior I've ever seen from a human being,' said Lisa Smittcamp, Fresno county district attorney, at a press conference on Friday announcing the arrests.
Smittcamp said that Lopez's actions should make people 'sick to their stomach.'
'The behavior of this woman is some of the most egregious criminality that I have ever seen,' Smittcamp continued.
'It is just horrendous to me that she could do this.'
Smittcamp accused Lopez of encouraging the gang activity 'by providing the financial means' to buy guns.
She was awarded the money after Fresno police shot and killed her son Isiah Murrietta-Golding in April 2017.
Lopez, of Madera, California, was accused by the Fresno district attorney of 'the most egregious criminality that I have ever seen'
Fresno County sheriffs seized 12 firearms (pictured) and made 14 arrests to take down a criminal gang believed to be behind a July murder. The gang were believed to be controlled from prison by Jesse Aguilar, 47
He and his brother were being sought for the murder of 19-year-old Eugenio Ybarra the day before. His brother, who was a minor and never named, handed himself in the night Murrietta-Golding died, and pleaded guilty to the killing.
Isiah Murrietta-Golding, 16, was shot and killed by police in Fresno in April 2017
Murrietta-Golding was stopped by police in his car at a shopping mall, and got out of the vehicle and ran.
Murrietta-Golding is seen in surveillance camera footage jumping
