A Jan. 10 trial date was scheduled today for a 23-year-old probationer accused of fatally beating a Riverside senior after breaking into her home.
Sixto Jesus Garcia Pena of Palm Springs was arrested in 2021 following a Riverside Police Department investigation into the slaying of 78-year-old Denise Irene Wong.
Pena is charged with first-degree murder, as well as special-circumstance allegations of killing in the commission of a robbery, killing in the commission of a burglary and inflicting torture…