King County prosecutors recently charged two of three suspects in the drive-by murder of a Kent man that occurred April 11 at a Federal Way intersection in broad daylight.<\/p>\n
Miguel Antonio Bejar, Jr., 21, of Kent, was charged on Friday, and Anontio Inda, 15, of Burien, was charged Monday morning in the apparent gang-related shooting. Both face second-degree murder charges. Bejar is being held on $1 million bail in the county jail in Kent. Inda awaits a decline hearing to determine if he should be tried as an adult.<\/p>\n
According to charging documents, prosecutors believe Bejar and Inda – along with getaway driver Alondra Garcia-Garcia – are responsible for the death of Arturo Marcial-Alvarez, 19, of Kent. Marcial-Alvarez was shot multiple times and killed at 4:30 p.m. on April 11 as he exited a Metro bus at South Dash Point Road and Pacific Highway South.<\/p>\n
The lead Federal Way detective on the case wrote in charging documents that a green Honda Odyssey minivan, thought to be driven by Garcia-Garcia, followed the bus the victim was riding for 8 miles from SeaTac.<\/p>\n
According to charging documents, Marcial-Alvarez got off at a bus stop near a used-car dealership and proceeded to walk toward the minivan. They state, Bejar, who was sitting in the van’s front passenger seat, fired a gun at the victim.<\/p>\n
“Almost simultaneously, Antonio Inda, who was also inside the minivan, put his pistol out of the same front passenger window and also fired at [victim] Alvarez,” the documents continue. “[He] tried to escape the gunfire by turning around and running south, but he was hit with three bullets to the back.”<\/p>\n
Police found one spent .22 shell casing in the area, however, five bullets struck the victim, and five bullets hit the cars behind him.<\/p>\n
The suspects quickly fled the scene as the victim “picked himself up from the ground and walked around the corner where he collapsed and died.”<\/p>\n
As medics tried to revive Marcial-Alvarez, police found a gun in his pocket.<\/p>\n
The detective discovered later that the King County Sheriff’s Office had been in contact with Marcial-Alvarez as early as Feb. 10. He had, at that time, said he was in a “disagreement with some people and that he believed they had been looking for him, presumably, to harm him.”<\/p>\n
Garcia-Garcia was arrested April 12 when Seattle police responded to a shooting in which Garcia-Garcia was involved. As police were investigating, they saw “Mama Pepa” written on her green minivan’s back window, which was also seen at the time of Marcial-Alvarez’s shooting.<\/p>\n
Garcia-Garcia was arrested and charged with rendering criminal assistance. She denies any involvement.<\/p>\n
Having just been released from jail on April 7 after serving a felony sentence, Bejar was arrested again on April 14 on an unrelated misdemeanor warrant, according to charging documents. Although he also denied being involved in Marcial-Alvarez’s murder, he told officers he was a member of the South Side Locos street gang and that there was an ongoing dispute between that gang and the United Lokotes, of which the detective claims Marcial-lvarez was a member.<\/p>\n
“During his interview, Bejar told police: ‘Before the end of 2017, there’s going to be a lot of dead gangsters…’ ” charging documents state.<\/p>\n
Sheriff’s office deputies arrested Inda at Highline High School on April 19 in Burien. He denied being involved in street gangs and knowing Marcial-Alvarez or having a connection to his murder. Police noted, however, he admitted he’d recently had an “altercation” with members of the United Lokotes street gang.<\/p>\n
Bejar and Garcia-Garcia are scheduled to be arraigned May 1 at the Maleng Regional Justice Center in Kent. Inda is being held in juvenile court and will be scheduled a decline hearing, where a judge will decide whether he should be prosecuted in juvenile or adult court.<\/p>\n
• Contributed by reporter Raechel Dawson, Federal Way Mirror<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" King County prosecutors recently charged two of three suspects in the drive-by murder of a Kent man that occurred April 11 at a Federal Way intersection in broad daylight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":27956,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-27955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-home","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27955"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27955\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27955"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=27955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}