Fugitive in 4 Killings Seized After 3-Year Hunt
Ending a three year-hunt, police and federal agents on Tuesday arrested one of the FBI’s 10 most-wanted criminals, suspected of killing four people, including a 2-year-old girl, at a Lake View Terrace crack house.
Jon Preston Settle, 31, was arrested near an apartment on Leeward Avenue in the Ramparts section of Los Angeles, said San Fernando Police Lt. Rico Castro.
Settle had been a fugitive since the Aug. 28, 1988, slayings of Andre Armstrong and James Brown, both of Pacoima; Lorretha Anderson, of Seaside, and her daughter, Chemise English, 2. Anderson’s 18-month-old son, Carlos English, was also wounded but survived.
Settle, held without bail, was due to be arraigned today in San Fernando Municipal Court on four counts of murder, one count of attempted murder and one narcotics charge, Castro said.
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