Yolo County Gang Task Force officers arrested a 33-year-old man in Woodland on Friday in connection with the second of two homicides that occurred in that city last week.
Alejandro Loza Quezada was taken into custody at about 7:30 p.m. after jumping from a second-story apartment window on Woodland Avenue near West Street, where Woodland police and gang task force officers, along with the Yolo County Sheriff’s SWAT team, had staged about an hour before, Lt. Aaron Delao said Saturday.
“Not knowing if there were other people inside the apartment, the SWAT team served a search warrant using light-sound diversionary devices (flash bangs) before making entry,” Delao said in a news release. “Nobody was injured during this incident and the apartment complex and surrounding intersections were opened up shortly after Quezada’s capture.”
Quezada, a Woodland resident, faces both murder and attempted murder charges in connection with the July 1 shooting that killed Geovanny Yabet Gomez, 35, during a vehicle chase in a residential area of Woodland.
According to Delao, the attempted murder charge stems from the shooting of one of Gomez’s passengers, who was struck and suffered minor injuries.
The case also remains open for additional arrests, as “the initial information was that there was a second person in Quezada’s vehicle at the time of the shooting,” Delao said. “This second person fled with Quezada on foot, although detectives have not positively identified him.”
Gomez’s death occurred just two days after a June 29 fatal shooting on Community Lane that killed 31-year-old Arnulfo Bermudez Jr. of Woodland. Police have not officially linked the two homicides, “but we are certainly not ruling it out,” Delao said.
No arrests have been made in connection with Bermudez’s death.
Quezada is being held without bail at the Yolo County Jail, his arraignment hearing scheduled for 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in Yolo Superior Court.
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