CALIFORNIA IN BRIEF : SAN DIEGO : Suspect Not Charged in Murder of Boy, 12
Authorities said there is currently not sufficient evidence to file murder charges against a suspect in the shooting of a 12-year-old boy along the U.S.-Mexican border, but they did accuse the man of the bow-and-arrow robberies of two groups of illegal immigrants. The alleged robberies--committed within 10 minutes of each other in March and involving a total of seven victims--are not connected to the murder, said Deputy Dist. Atty. Luis Aragon. The accused, Leonard Paul Cuen, 21, whose family home is about a quarter of a mile north of the international boundary, is still considered a suspect in the May 18 murder of Emilio Eusebio Jimenez Bejines. The boy was gunned down about 350 yards south of Cuen’s home.
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