San Bruno Dismemberment Victim ID'd Through Dental Records, Coroner Says

SAN BRUNO, CA – A man who was found killed and dismembered in a Peninsula neighborhood last week has been publicly identified. San Mateo County coroner's officials say 77-year-old Benjamin Roybal's remains were discovered on April 6.

"Following a comparison of the victim's dental records, the victim has been positively identified as Benjamin Roybal a 77-year-old male resident of San Bruno," a news release from the coroner's office stated Thursday.

San Bruno police said last week that Roybal's body was found in a gruesome scene at a house on Pacific Heights Boulevard as they were investigating a missing person case. Police have still not said if Roybal was that missing person.

Roybal and the man suspected of killing him, 50-year-old David Stubblefield, were neighbors and friends, , according to prosecutors. Both men lived in the 3000 block of Pacific Heights Boulevard.

During a court appearance on Monday, arrangements were put in place to provide Stubblefield with a court-appointed lawyer, according to San Mateo County District Attorney Steve Wagstaffe.

Stubblefield's bail was set at $10 million, and a further arraignment in which Stubblefield will enter a plea was scheduled for April 24.

On March 11, the two allegedly argued about the price of a space heater Roybal had agreed to buy from Stubblefield. Stubblefield sprayed Roybal with pepper spray and then shot him to death. Stubblefield cut up Roybal's body and tried to get rid of it using chemicals, prosecutors said.

After discovering Roybal's remains on Apri 6, police detained Stubblefield and took him to the police station to be interviewed.

Once at the station, officers arrested him on suspicion of homicide, robbery, burglary, the illegal use and possession of tear gas and possessing a gun as a felon, before booking him into the Maguire Correctional
Facility, where he remains in custody.

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– Bay City News Service contributed to this report / Patch file photo by Renee Schiavone