Five men have been arrested, including the husband of a woman gunned down in broad daylight outside a restaurant, in what police say was a murder-for-hire plot to kill Yesenia Torres, 44, the San Bernardino Police Department announced Feb. 18.

“Today marks the culmination of a near-monthlong investigation that took the life of Yesenia Torres, known by her family and friends as Yessica Torres,” Police Chief Darren Goodman said Tuesday.

Detectives say they believe Torres’s killing was prompted by an impending divorce from her husband, Sergio Reveles, 53.

In a video shared by police Tuesday, Torres is seen leaving a San Bernardino restaurant on Jan. 10 and attempting to get into her Mercedes SUV when another SUV pulls up behind her. A man gets out of the car and approaches the woman. He takes her purse and pulls out a gun.

Police say what appeared to be a robbery quickly escalated, and the man shot the woman several times as she tried to flee.

Police paused the video before it showed the gunman killing the victim.

Witness accounts and the video footage led police to suspect Gerardo Llamas-Torres, 31, as the shooter and Arnoldo Ruelas, 54, as the getaway driver, police said in a news release.

On Jan. 16, after executing search warrants in Los Angeles and Bakersfield, police arrested Llamas-Torres and Ruelas. “Evidence linking them to the murder was recovered, including a large sum of U.S. currency,” the news release said.

Further investigation led police to Reynaldo Ruelas, 37, a brother of Arnoldo Ruelas. Police alleged that Reveles and his business partner, Juan Perez, 42, used Reynaldo as an intermediary between them and the shooters.

On Feb. 6, searches at seven locations, including the homes and business properties of Reveles and Perez, resulted in the seizure of $286,000 in cash and multiple firearms, police said.

Reveles, who was arrested on Feb. 14 , is being held in San Bernardino County, at the West Valley Detention Center, according to inmate records, which is about 45 miles east of Los Angeles.

Detectives found that the killing was allegedly motivated by the divorce and had been discussed for more than a year, police said.

The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office charged all five with first-degree murder.

Prosecutors also filed three special circumstances against all defendants of robbery, financial gain, and lying in wait, which if the men are found guilty could add to the severity of their sentences.

“All defendants pleaded not guilty to all charges at arraignment and are being held without bail,” the district attorney’s office wrote on Facebook on Feb. 18.

The San Bernardino Police Department recovered guns and money during the investigation into a murder-for-hire plot announced Feb. 18, 2025. (San Bernardino Police Department)

Detective Dominick Martinez said police were able to recover “a lot of good surveillance” from the victim’s home to her work to where the shooting occurred.

“The divorce has been in process for about two years,” Martinez said.