SEATTLE (AP) - A suspect in the 2008 killing of an 18-year-old has been extradited from Mexico to Seattle.
The Seattle Times reports (https://bit.ly/2rrIwmL ) 29-year-old Jose Angel Ruiz-Antonio is being held in connection to the killing of Ivan Hernandez-Vazquez, who was found dead in an alley after telling his roommate he was going to the bank.
Authorities say Ruiz-Antonio was with Hernandez-Vasquez in May 2008 when he was last seen. Ruiz-Antonio was questioned by police shortly after the death, and then disappeared. Court documents say that about a month after the killing, blood in Ruiz-Antonio’s abandoned vehicle was matched to Hernandez-Vasquez.
Ruiz-Antonio was originally charged with second-degree murder. Amended charges of first-degree murder while committing or attempting to commit robbery in the first- and second degree were filed in 2013.
He was arrested in Mexico in 2014 and held pending extradition proceedings.
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Information from: The Seattle Times, https://www.seattletimes.com
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