Lakeside

Jury selection will resume today in the trial of an El Cajon man accused of killing his ex-wife, her 5-month-old fetus, a 16-year-old boy and his brother at a Lakeside house in 1988.

The case of Aristeo Hernandez, 28, was assigned last week to San Diego Superior Court Judge J. Perry Langford, and jury selection began Monday.

Hernandez is also charged with special-circumstances counts on grounds that multiple murders were committed. The district attorney’s office has decided not to seek the death penalty against Hernandez, but instead opt for a life sentence without possibility of parole.

The victims were Theresa Ann Hernandez, 24; Jose Mireles-Rodriguez, 16; Jose Luis Mireles-Rodriguez, 20, and the fetus, which was male. All were shot to death.

The day before the Nov. 16, 1988, killings, Hernandez received a court notice that his wages as a cabinetmaker would be garnished for failure to pay child support.

Hernandez is in County Jail on $1-million bail.