BANNING (CNS) - A 41-year-old convicted felon accused of fatally shooting his mother and stepfather in Hemet pleaded not guilty Friday, Aug. 13 to murder and other charges.
Quintin Antony McCracken was arrested on Aug. 6 following a Hemet Police Department investigation into the deaths of 61-year-old Harriet Elaine Barnes and 75-year-old John Ronald Perez days earlier.
Along with two counts of first-degree murder, the defendant is charged with special-circumstance allegations of taking multiple lives, as well as one count each of vehicle theft and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm, with sentence-enhancing gun and great bodily injury allegations.
McCracken was arraigned before Riverside County Superior Court Judge Timothy Hollenhorst, who scheduled a felony settlement co
