Jury to continue deliberating in Rialto shooting death

The victim's body had two .22 caliber gunshot wounds, one in the torso and one in the back of the head.

At the time of the shooting, Stull was on parole on a vehicle theft conviction, police said. Testimony in the case began Nov. 6. Stull testified in her own defense, according to court records.

Here is an article from The Sun when Stull was arrested in 2006:

Sun, The (San Bernardino, CA)

June 27, 2006
Section: News

Woman held in shooting of ex-boyfriend
Author: Gina Tenorio, Staff Writer

Article Text:

A Fontana woman was arrested Tuesday on suspicion of fatally shooting her former boyfriend at his Rialto home.

Jennifer Stull, 23, admitted to Rialto investigators that she shot Michael Anthony Ribaudo, 38, Saturday at the Driftwood Avenue home he shared with his mother, said Rialto police Sgt. Reinhard Burkholder.

Stull told detectives that while she had been in the home, Ribaudo had begun sexually harassing her, Burkholder said. Stull claimed an argument had erupted and that Ribaudo stopped her when she tried to leave, the detective said.

The fight then reportedly escalated into the shooting, Burkholder said.

"She felt threatened and said that, in the past, she had communicated through other people that he was going to kill her," Burkholder said.

Detectives were still trying to confirm that story, Burkholder said.

Ribaudo's mother, Beverly Ribaudo, 60, said Stull's depiction of her son is false and that it was Stull who had threatened her son's life.

"Word on the street was that she was going to waste my son," Beverly Ribaudo said.

Stull would often drop in on the family uninvited despite the fact that her son was seeing someone else, she said. Beverly Ribaudo said she had asked Stull to leave the home several times.

"If she felt threatened, why was she there?" Beverly Ribaudo asked.

Ribaudo's latest girlfriend found him lying in the living room about 11:30 p.m. Saturday. He had been shot with a handgun once in the back of the head and once in the torso, Burkholder said.

By Monday, detectives had turned their attentions to Stull, putting out her name and photo as a person of interest. Police were able to track her down to a mobile home in Fontana and arrested her on parole violations, Burkholder said.

She was on parole after a conviction of vehicle theft, Burkholder said. She has had run-ins with the law but the shooting is the only violent offense he found in her past, the sergeant said.

"I am so angry," Beverly Ribaudo said. "As soon as Detective (James) Massey told me it was her, I felt so angry. Words can't describe how I feel."

(c) 2006 The Sun. All rights reserved. Reproduced with the permission of Media NewsGroup, Inc.