Two men arrested in brutal murder of King County teenager
FEDERAL WAY, Wash. – Two suspects in the murder of a 16-year-old boy were arrested, but not before police say an officer was forced to fire at one of them.
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This image from the King County Sheriff's Office shows a handgun police say the suspect brandished.
The police shooting happened around noon Wednesday along SW Campus Drive in Federal Way when officers were trying to arrest 28-year-old Rudy Garcia-Hernandez.
The King County Sheriff’s Office says a SWAT officer fired after the suspect fled and brandished a gun, but the shot missed and the suspect was eventually arrested unharmed.
Another man, 20-year-old Carlos Iraheta-Vega, was arrested in Federal Way on Tuesday in connection with the murder after officers received a tip.
The body of Mount Rainier High School student Juan Carlos Con Guzman was found in the Green River in September, and detectives determined he was murdered.
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Juan Carlos Con Guzman
“Juan Carlos impacted me in a positive way, and I’m always going to have him in his memory, and that’s going to impact the way I support and interact with students,” principal Kyle Linman said after Juan's death.
Court documents released on Wednesday said Con Guzman went to a "secluded location" with the suspects around 3 a.m. the same day his body was found.
Investigators say two men brutally beat Con Guzman with a baseball bat and slashed his neck with a machete. They dumped his body in the water, then burned their clothes trying to get rid of the evidence.
Both suspects were booked into the King County Jail.
Iraheta-Vega and Garcia-Hernandez were both charged Friday with murder in the first degree with a deadly weapon. A judge raised bail to $3 million each.