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The suspect in the shooting that killed 30-year-old Charles Johnson at a Tara Hills apartment complex on Sunday, Jan. 10, was arrested Friday following a separate non-injury shooting at the same apartment complex, according to the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office.
Kenneth Lightfoot, 30, of Tara Hills, was booked into the Martinez Detention Facility on suspicion of murder and illegal discharge of a firearm and is being held on $1.05 million bail.
At about 12:30 p.m. on Jan. 10, deputies responded to reports of shots fired at the apartment complex at San Pablo Avenue and Crestwood Drive in Tara Hills, the sheriff’s office said. They located Johnson in a vehicle suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Despite life-saving efforts by deputies and first responders, Johnson, a San Francisco resident, was pronounced dead at the scene.
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The death of a man in a North Richmond house fire has been ruled a homicide, according to the Contra Costa County Sheriff’s Office.
An autopsy determined that Virillio Patino-Cruz, 23, of North Richmond, died from carbon dioxide intoxication due to smoke inhalation due to the fire, which occurred Tuesday morning at a home in the 1800 block of Giaramita Street, the sheriff’s office said Wednesday.
Patino-Cruz was found unresponsive in the home and was transported to a local hospital, where he was pronounced deceased, the sheriff’s office said.
Even before the autopsy was done, Patino-Cruz’s death was deemed suspicious. Arson investigators joined Sheriff’s Office detectives in probing the incident.