Los Angeles Social Media Influencer Charged with Murder Plot

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office has charged social media influencer Gabriela Gonzalez, along with her father and former boyfriend, in connection to a plot to kill singer Jack Avery. Gonzalez is the mother of Avery’s 7-year-old daughter. The alleged plot unfolded during a 2020 custody dispute.

According to District Attorney Nathan Hochman, Gabriela Gonzalez, 24, her father Francisco Gonzalez, 59, and her former boyfriend Faron Cordrey, 26, face charges including attempted murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and solicitation of murder. The FBI initially investigated the case before handing it over to Los Angeles County prosecutors.

Details from court documents indicate that witnesses claimed Gabriela Gonzalez expressed a desire for Avery’s demise, discussing the potential for hiring a hitman. Prosecutors allege the plot involved staging Jack Avery’s death to appear as a shooting or accident. Gabriel Gonzalez reportedly instructed Cordrey to access the dark web to locate a hitman to murder Avery, a former member of the boy band Why Don’t We, during the timeframe of 2020 to 2021. Francisco Gonzalez allegedly provided Cordrey with $10,000 as an advance to hire a hitman, who was actually an undercover FBI agent.

“Most fathers raise their children to respect the law, but here we have a dad who allegedly helped his daughter and her boyfriend break the law in the most sinister way imaginable,” Hochman stated.

Two months later, Francisco Gonzalez purportedly sent an additional $4,000, responding to the supposed hitman’s request for more funds. In September 2021, Cordrey reportedly engaged with an undercover officer feigning as a hitman, discussing payment details, proof of death, and specifically naming Avery as the target.

Cordrey allegedly informed the officer of Gabriela Gonzalez’s insistence on the murder and her father’s financial backing for the plan. During a podcast interview last year, Jack Avery recounted an FBI visit that warned him of the plot, conveying, “Someone hired someone to kill me.”

If found guilty, each accused faces a potential sentence of 25 years to life in state prison.