Suspect in Slaying Recaptured After Escape
Police captured a man Tuesday who had escaped a day earlier from a police holding cell after his arrest for investigation of a man’s slaying.
Herman Gonzalez, 27, was arrested the second time at an undisclosed Culver City location that had been put under surveillance, said Los Angeles Police Department spokeswoman Sharyn Michelson.
Gonzalez was first arrested Monday morning along with Robert Luna, 30, in connection with the bludgeoning death of Joseph Mancino, 52, of Los Feliz, police said.
The pair were taken into custody after an officer who stopped the car they were driving and found that one of them was carrying Mancino’s identification, said Michelson.
Anti-gang officers had stopped the car in which they were riding in a probe of gang activity.
The body of Mancino was later found in the apartment listed on the identification, the officer said.
Gonzalez escaped from the holding cell in the Police Department’s Northeast Station between 12:30 and 1 p.m.
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