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California housing costs were astronomical before COVID-19. Now, they’re just wild. The median price of a home sold last month reached $811,000, up more than 20% from just a year ago.

On Wednesday August 25th, the valley community came together at the Historic Hemet Theatre to celebrate the building’s 100th anniversary.

Schools are back in sessions here in Hemet, San Jacinto Valley, and I couldn’t be happier. My kids are finally out of the house, and they are going to their normal babysitters, the teachers. Schools are “in-person,” as God had always intended them to be. We don’t have to worry about feeding them, because breakfast and lunch are free in schools. We don’t have to worry about them “being bored.” There is a new FPS video game called “The Delta Variant,” and they now get to play it all day long, without their mother constantly yelling, “put that stupid video game away.” Instead of talking to their “friends” through the game console, they now get to curse and scream at them where we can’t hear the foul language and the encrypted slang that I don’t think even they properly understand.

During the course of this investigation, a suspect was identified in the murder of victim Gabriel Sanchez. On August 31, 2021, the suspect, Juan Perez, 29 years of San Jacinto, had additional charges of Murder, Discharge of a Firearm causing Great Bodily Injury, and Felon in Possession of a Firearm added, as he was already in custody at the Cois Byrd Detention Center.

On August 26, 2021, at about 12:06 p.m., deputies from the Perris Sheriff Station began a robbery and assault with a deadly weapon at a market in the 22700 block of San Jacinto Ave., Perris. During the robbery, a male victim was assaulted and transported to a local hospital. The suspect vehicle was located at an address on Mt. Shasta in Perris and surveillance was conducted by the Perris Burglary Suppression Team.