2nd Suspect Held in Market Slaying
Police have arrested a second suspect in the slaying of an El Cajon market owner.
Tin Trung Ngo, 19, of Westminster in Orange County is scheduled to be arraigned for murder, attempted murder and robbery today, a County Jail spokeswoman said.
He was arrested Wednesday after detectives went to an alleged “safe house for Asian-type gang individuals” in the 4000 block of Polk Avenue in San Diego and brought him to the station for questioning, El Cajon Police Lt. Bob Lein said.
Lein would not elaborate on how investigators came to suspect Ngo of being involved in the slaying of Thomas Mikhael, 31, who was shot to death Sunday during a robbery at his Deliquery Market in the 700 block of Broadway.
Ngo, and Hai Van Nguyen, who was arrested earlier this week, are also suspected of shooting Mikhael’s nephew, David Wartan. Wartan, 17, is at UC San Diego Medical Center in critical condition with chest and abdomen wounds, a nursing supervisor said.
More than two people may have been involved in the shooting, and investigators expect to arrest more suspects soon, Lein said.
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