A 28-year-old Orange County sheriff’s deputy charged with voluntary manslaughter in the shooting death of her fiancée in their Tustin home surrendered to law enforcement Monday.
Aimee Alexis Hidalgo of Tustin turned herself in to Tustin police on Monday after being charged with voluntary manslaughter with an enhancement for personal use of a firearm, the Orange County District Attorney’s Office announced.
Both women were employed at the Orange County jail, prosecutors said,
At approximately 5:10 a.m. on Aug. 8, 2025, exterior Ring video footage shows 35-year-old Brittany Shaw, Hidalgo’s fiancée, leaving their studio apartment to walk her dog and returning around 5:20 a.m., according to prosecutors.
Seconds after Shaw returned to the apartment, Hidalgo allegedly shot her fiancée nine times. Shaw was shot in the torso, right arm, and in the head, a shot which according to the coroner’s report was at “close intermediate range” discharged less than eight inches from the victim’s head, prosecutors said.
Hidalgo called 911 and gave Shaw CPR in an effort to resuscitate her, but those efforts were unsuccessful, and Shaw was pronounced dead, prosecutors said.
Hidalgo could face a maximum sentence of 21 years in state prison if convicted of all counts, prosecutors said. She is on administrative leave from the sheriff’s department, where she began serving as a deputy in 2021.
Shaw worked at the jail in correctional health.
Prosecutors said the couple had been planning to marry in Mexico in November 2025.
“Human life is our most precious gift, and to lose the gift of life in your own home at the hands of someone you were engaged to is an indescribable tragedy,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in a statement..
”Lady Justice is blindfolded for a reason, to ensure justice is carried out without bias or prejudice, regardless of who is the accused. The badge is not a shield from prosecution; rather it is a symbol of the oath a sworn officer takes to uphold the law, on and off duty.
“When that oath is broken, the law applies equally to those with and without a badge and our duty to pursue justice for Brittany and all of those who loved her will be pursued in a court of law.”