![]() ![]() Monday, neighbors heard Elrakabawy and Walden shouting in the frontyard, police said. ![]() “She’d been a gangly, awkward kid, a geek, and she was just blossoming.Ībout 4:30 a.m. ![]() “She was becoming so beautiful,” said Paula Rogers, who moved to the neighborhood five years ago and hired Camellia regularly to baby-sit. Neighbors placed friendly wagers on whether Camellia would become a diplomat or a model. They were among the first residents of the newly built neighborhood.Ĭamellia was then a quiet and bookish 10-year-old, friends and neighbors say, and they watched with fondness as she grew up. The family moved six years ago into the home on Donatello Drive, in a south Corona tract near the mountains in Riverside County. Camellia often baby-sat Tate’s children, and once told Tate that her father had been fondling her, Tate said. ![]() “She wanted to get out of that house,” said Sherine Tate, a neighbor. The family apparently had concealed from most friends and neighbors that Elrakabawy was still on probation.Ĭamellia Elrakabawy had recently passed the high school equivalency exam and was preparing to leave for college, at least a year before most of her peers. Monday’s shootings occurred two years after Elrakabawy pleaded guilty to three charges of lewd conduct with Camellia. Behind the veneer, however, were darker lives. ![]()
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