Off Duty Firefighter Killed in Riverside

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Woman's ex-boyfriend killed Riverside firefighter
10:25 PM PDT on Monday, November 1, 2010

By JOHN ASBURY
The Press-Enterprise

Riverside firefighters were in shock Monday, trying to cope with the weekend death of an off-duty firefighter who was ambushed and shot to death while walking a woman to her car.

Fire stations across the city flew the American flag and a purple and black Fire Department mourning flag at half-staff in remembrance of Nick Barrios, 41. He had worked as an engineer at Riverside Fire Station 14 off Central Avenue in Canyon Crest since it opened in 2007.

Barrios was walking a woman to her car at 3:30 a.m. when Rene Trejo, 36, of Moreno Valley, confronted them in front of a home on Windemere Way in Canyon Crest, Riverside police Lt. Ed Blevins said.

Police believe Trejo had been waiting for Barrios and fired several rounds, shooting Barrios multiple times while he was standing in the street. The woman was not injured and her identity was not released.

The woman was involved in a relationship with Trejo several months earlier that had ended, Blevins said. Police did not know what relationship the woman had with Barrios.

After Barrios was shot, police believe Trejo followed the woman inside the house where he shot and killed himself in front of her. Detectives said they were not searching for any additional suspects. Neither Trejo nor Barrios had criminal records.

Riverside firefighter-paramedics were called to the shooting as a standard medical aid. They took Barrios by ambulance to a nearby hospital where he died from multiple gunshot wounds.

Barrios joined the Riverside Fire Department in 1998 after working for Victorville Fire and the Apple Valley Protection District. On Monday, Riverside Fire Division Chief John Martinez visited Station 14, where each of the city's firefighters wore a black band over their badges. Martinez said Barrios loved firefighting and Riverside.

He was quiet, but enthusiastic and a model firefighter about his job, Martinez said.

"We're still coping with it, and working in different ways, trying to support each other," Martinez said. "It's a little different for firefighters, because we live together and eat together. It's like losing someone from your family."

RIVERSIDE: Streets closed for slain firefighter's funeral
By
PE News
on November 10, 2010 8:45 AM

A funeral will be held in downtown Riverside on Wednesday morning for a city firefighter who was shot to death on Halloween.

The funeral for firefighter Nicolas Barrios will be held at St. Francis de Sales Catholic Church, the Riverside Fire Department said.

Several city streets will close to accommodate the ceremony:

* At 7 a.m., city crews will close 12th Street between Lime and Mulberry streets and Mulberry between 12th and 13th streets, the city's Public Utilities Department said in a news release.

* At 8 a.m., Lime will be closed between 10th and 12th streets and barricades will be set up to prevent entry onto Lime from side streets.

All the streets are expected to reopen at noon, the utilities department said.

Barrios was shot and killed about 3:30 a.m. Oct. 31 as he walked a woman to her car in front of a home on Windemere Way in Riverside's Canyon Crest neighborhood.

Police said Rene Trejo, 36, of Moreno Valley, the ex-boyfriend of the woman Barrios was escorting, shot Barrios, then went into the house and killed himself.