The Woodland Police Department announced an arrest this week in connection with a nearly decade-old shooting homicide outside a downtown nightclub.
Jose Luis Gomez Arreola, 35, was taken into custody in Idaho on Wednesday on a warrant charging him with the March 6, 2011, murder of victim Gabriel Villareal Ibarra, who was fatally shot outside the former La Finca de Rivera at First and Bush streets, police said Thursday in a press release.
According to coverage in The Davis Enterprise at the time, officers responding to reports of shots fired in that area arrived to find Ibarra, a 30-year-old Williams, bleeding heavily from multiple gunshot wounds to his chest and back. He died at the scene.
As detectives and crime-scene technicians combed the crime scene for evidence, police learned of a second shooting victim, a 27-year-old Yuba City man, who went to Rideout Memorial Hospital in Marysville seeking treatment for a gunshot wound that was not life-threatening.
“During the subsequent investigation, it was learned that there had been a physical fight between various parties outside of the bar,” during which Arreola allegedly brandished a gun and shot the two victims, Woodland police said Thursday. “Arreola then allegedly fired off several more rounds towards the crowd gathering before fleeing the scene.”
Investigators obtained a warrant for Arreola’s arrest in May 2015, but it would be another five years before Idaho authorities tracked him down, police said. Arreola is expected to return to Yolo County to face criminal charges, which according to Yolo Superior Court online records include murder and two counts of attempted murder, with enhancements for use of a firearm.