"I want that monster to know what a beautiful human being he took from us," said Leona Hodo.
Hodo says she last spoke to her son, Bradley Minder on Saturday, Oct. 12 after his alleged housemate ransacked his room.
"He wanted to let me know that he is back at the house that he was cleaning up his room cause the man broke into his room and destroyed a lot of his stuff," she said.
Three days later her son's body was found buried in the backyard of the home.
Riverside police say they were called to a residents on the 8700 block of Sylvan drive after Minder had been not been seen or heard from for several days.
At the home, a man identified as 48-year-old Richard Thomas Martinez made statements claiming he killed his roommate.
Martinez was detained while detectives searched the home. Minder's remains were found in the backyard buried.
The victim's family say the two did not know each other and that Martinez stayed off and on at the home which belonged to his grandfather.
"Bradly didn't really know him, the guy was on some bender or something. He wasn't right in the head... drugs he was constantly smoking meth and stuff," said Vinnie Casella, Minder's brother.
Casella says his brother was prepared to leave the home once he found a new room to rent.
"The day after the cops arrested the guy, the thought he would be safe and not have to worry about the guy being out, and he came back to all his stuff destroyed," said Casella.
He says Martinez was initially arrested for disorderly conduct and being in the possession of a controlled substance when he assaulted his own grandfather and then ransacked his brother's room prior to the murder.
"He never got mad at anyone, he was never an angry person, he was loving had a heart of gold," said Hodo.
Minder who was the oldest in his family helped raise his younger siblings and is remembered as friendly and protective of those he loved.
"He told me he was going to be OK, said, "I love you mom, you are my rock," and that was the last time I talked to my son," she said.
Hodo says she'll be in the courtroom on Nov. 4th when Martinez is arraigned on murder charges.
A GoFundMe account has been setup to help with the family with burial expenses.