Los Angeles — The stepsister of a woman found dead in August near Gorman and the stepsister’s boyfriend have been charged with her murder and with the kidnapping of her young children.
Twenty-two year old Britney Sue Humphrey and 27 year-old Joshua Aaron Robertson were charged in case BA449493.
Robertson is due to be arraigned in Department 30 at the Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center. Prosecutors will ask that bail be set at two million dollars. Humphrey is awaiting extradition following her arrest in Colorado.
Humphrey and Robertson are charged with killing Humphrey’s stepsister, Kimberly Harvill, on or about August 14, 2016. Harvill’s body was discovered in a remote area of Gorman on August 14. The complaint alleges Robertson personally and intentionally discharged a firearm, a handgun. He is also charged with one count of possession of a firearm by a felon with two prior convictions.
The couple are also charged with kidnapping the murder victim’s three young children, ages five, three and two. The children were found safe in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on August 24, 2016. Humphrey and Robertson were arrested a day later in Colorado.
Deputy District Attorneys Deanne Castorena and Tal Kahana with the Child Abduction Unit are prosecuting the case.
If convicted, each defendant faces up to life in state prison.
The case remains under investigation by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department would like to recognize the multiple agencies that contributed to the process which resulted in safely locating the children and arresting the suspects, including Fresno Police Department, Fresno County Sheriff’s Office, Madera County Sheriff’s Office, Grants (New Mexico) Police Department, Pueblo (Colorado) Police Department, Pueblo (Colorado) Sheriff’s Office, Department of Children and Family Services, multiple agencies within the United States who collaborated in the search of the children and suspects, news media who provided extensive coverage of this crime, numerous units within the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office.
Anyone with information about this incident is encouraged to contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Information Bureau at (213) 229-1700. If you prefer to provide information anonymously, you may call “Crime Stoppers” by dialing (800) 222-TIPS (8477), use your smartphone by downloading the “P3 Tips” Mobile APP, or “P3 Mobile” for the hearing impaired, on Google play or the App Store, or by using the website http://lacrimestoppers.org.
