When Vanessa Arnold’s boyfriend was killed, reportedly by an intruder in her Utah house, police began combing by surveillance video.
They discovered an uncommon clue — one which led them to doubt the intruder story.
Carlos Huerta-Garcia, 22, was fatally shot on Sept. 29 close to the entrance door of the house within the Salt Lake Metropolis suburb of Murray. Arnold instructed police she had been upstairs when she heard the gunshot, and she or he ran right down to see an individual in darkish garments fleeing, in accordance with the Salt Lake Tribune.
Surveillance video from the realm confirmed that the one that ran from the home obtained into a particular automobile — white, with a black hood.
Wanting again by the video, investigators noticed the identical automobile close to the house two days earlier. In these photos, the individual within the automobile threw what seemed to be a soda can onto the road.
Returning to the house, they discovered the Pepsi can was nonetheless there. It bore the fingerprints of Arnold’s brother, James.
That set off a hunt that resulted in Las Vegas, the place James Arnold, 25, was dwelling underneath one other title. He was arrested, and on Wednesday was charged with homicide, obstruction of justice and possession of a gun by a restricted individual, the Tribune stated.
Vanessa Arnold, 40, has been charged with obstruction of justice and witness tampering — felonies associated to allegedly serving to her brother flee.
A buddy of the Arnolds instructed police that the younger man stated he killed Huerta-Garcia due to the sister’s “dangerous relationship.”
James Arnold, who was on probation on the time of the capturing, is being held in Utah State Jail, the Tribune stated. Each Arnolds had been arrested in a drug bust in 2019.