Suspect in Contract Killing Turns Self In
An Arleta man charged with the contract killing of a man who had arranged an earlier contract killing surrendered to authorities Wednesday, Los Angeles police reported.
Darrell Ray Edwards, 38, walked into the Foothill Division police station in Pacoima about 10 a.m. and told officers he was wanted in a murder investigation, Detective Michael Brandt said. He was being held without bail.
Edwards had been charged a day earlier with murdering James Bernstein, 26, of Reseda last June 27. Authorities said Edwards and Paul Edwin Gaul, 26, of Sylmar, lured Bernstein to a remote part of Ventura County and killed him. Bernstein’s decomposed body was found the following month and authorities have declined to say how he is believed to have been killed.
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