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Suspect in '99 Killing Arrested in Mexico

Los Angeles | IN BRIEF / WOODLAND HILLS

April 22, 2004|From Times Staff Reports

A man suspected of fatally shooting a visitor to a holiday lights display in Woodland Hills more than four years ago has been arrested on a first-degree murder charge in Mexico, a Los Angeles police detective said.

Police long suspected that ex-convict Carlos Alvaro Beltrani Merino, 36, had fled to his native Mexico after the 1999 Christmas evening slaying of Francisco Javier Hernandez, 24, a construction worker from Winnetka.


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Hernandez was shot in front of his wife, young son and horrified onlookers in the Candy Cane Lane area of Woodland Hills.

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