Murder suspect extradited to Riverside County
A thirty-one-year-old Santa Cruz man accused of murdering his mother in Palm Springs and then driving her body to South Dakota has been brought back to California. According to John Hall of the Riverside County District Attorney’s Office, Tosten Walsh Lommen was booked into Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside on 1.1 million dollar bail on Saturday.
He is expected to be arraigned at the Larson Justice Center in Indio on Wednesday morning at 8 am.
Lommen was detained in South Dakota on January 1st following a 50-mile-long high-speed chase. During a subsequent search of his vehicle the body of a woman, later revealed to be 58-year-old Michelle Nanette Walsh, was discovered.
In January, Walsh’s death was ruled a homicide.
“Preliminary autopsy results indicate blunt trauma injury to her head and hemorrhage anterior neck musculature,” said South Dakota Attorney General Marty Jackley. “This confirms this is a homicide and will continue to be treated as such.”
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