SANTA CRUZ — A San Jose man shot and left for useless down a freeway embankment final month could have been killed by two pals, Santa Cruz County Sheriff’s Workplace authorities introduced Thursday.
The physique of Oliver Waterfall, 24, was found round 7 p.m. April 11 on a hillside alongside Freeway 9 between Paradise Park and Henry Cowell Park’s Backyard of Eden. The Sheriff’s Workplace investigators consider Waterfall was killed March 17, mentioned Ashley Keehn, spokesperson for the sheriff’s workplace.
The company delayed saying the murder for greater than two weeks, till after the suspected killers had been arrested Wednesday, at murder detectives’ discretion, an company official mentioned Thursday.
“Because of the nature of the investigation and to not hinder the leads that our detectives did have, it was not introduced till these arrests had been made,” Keehn mentioned. “I believe every murder, in nature, is completely different.”
Detectives have spent the previous two weeks conducting interviews and reviewing surveillance footage associated to the case, in accordance with an company launch.
Dennis Novoa, 27, of San Jose, was arrested round 6 p.m. Wednesday after an interview on the Reside Oak substation of the Sheriff’s Workplace. Diana Ornelas, 22, of Santa Clara, was arrested round 3 p.m. Wednesday on the 100 block of Comstock Circle in Stanford’s Escondido Village, in accordance with Keehn.
The 2 remained held Thursday at Santa Cruz County Jail in lieu of $1 million bail. They had been scheduled to be arraigned Friday morning on the Santa Cruz County Superior Courtroom on prices of homicide, with critical felony violation enhancements.
Members of the general public with info concerning the murder are requested to name detective Sgt. Jess Simpson at 831-454-7702.