Suspect Arrested At SFO In NorCal Killing

A Northern California homicide case moved fast this week because the last missing suspect is now in custody. Sacramento County deputies say 20-year-old Juan Colmenero was arrested at San Francisco International Airport on April 29 after investigators said he fled to Puerto Rico following a March 15 shooting outside a pop-up party on Auburn Boulevard. The case matters because the people hit were not the intended targets. Deputies say a woman riding away in an Uber was killed and a man in the same car survived after gunfire tore into a crowd. (fox40.com) ### What happened at the party? Just after midnight on March 15, deputies responded to reports of gunfire in the 4400 block of Auburn Boulevard. Investigators later tied the shooting to a large unsanctioned party at 4366 Auburn Boulevard, where crowds had gathered inside and outside the building. When d(fox40.com) expected to survive. (fox40.com) ### Why are deputies saying a rapper was the target? Detectives say this was not a random burst of violence. Their account is that one group waited outside for a rapper and his associates to leave the party. When that group came out, five suspects allegedly got out of a vehicle and opened fire into the (fox40.com)thing closer to a planned ambush with a huge risk to everyone nearby. (fox40.com) ### Who got arrested? Authorities say there are five suspects total. Four were arrested on April 20 — Kymani Agbouti, 18, of Vallejo; Avante Washington, 18, of Antelope; and two juveniles from Oakland and Sacramento. The fifth suspect, Colmenero of Emeryville, was the one still missing until this week. All five are facing homicide-related charges. Deputies also said there are no outstanding suspects left in the case. (fox40.com) ### Why does the SFO arrest matter? Because it closes the obvious gap in the case. Investigators said Colmenero fled to Puerto Rico after the shooting, which meant the other four arrests did not fully wrap the investigation. His arrest at SFO suggests deputies were waiting for the moment he returned thr(fox40.com) ### Were the victims involved at all? Deputies say no. The sheriff’s office has been clear that the two people hit were passengers in an Uber trying to leave the parking lot and had no affiliation with either group. That is what gives the story its weight — the alleged target walked away from the headline, while the fatal victim appears to have been a bystander caught in somebody else’s feud. (fox40.com) ### Why is this getting Bay Area attention? Because several suspects are from Bay Area cities. Agbouti is from Vallejo. Colmenero is from Emeryville. One juvenile suspect is from Oakland. So even though the shooting happened in Sacramento County, the arrests quickly became a regional story stretching from Sacramento to the inner East Bay and SFO. (kron4.com) ### What’s the bottom line? The core of the case now looks settled, at least on the arrest side. Deputies say five people waited for a rapper outside a March party, opened fire, and instead killed an uninvolved Uber passenger. With Colmenero arrested at SFO on April 29, the sheriff’s office says everyone it considers a suspect is now in custody. (fox40.com)