LANCASTER : 2nd Man Held in Slaying at ATM
A second man has been arrested on suspicion of killing a Lancaster man who was gunned down after using an automated teller machine, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said Friday.
Wesley Harper, 24, of Lancaster was arrested without incident about 5 p.m. Thursday in the 3200 block of East Avenue H-14, homicide Lt. William Sieber said.
On Sunday, detectives arrested Christopher A. Mann, 19, the suspected gunman in the slaying of Hans Christian Herzog on March 5 near a Bank of America ATM on Lancaster Boulevard.
Sieber said Harper drove Mann to the bank in a pickup truck and Mann tried to rob Herzog, 46, after he used the ATM. But Herzog had just made a deposit and had no money, so Mann shot him, pulled him out of his car and sped away in it, sheriff’s deputies allege.
Mann later led authorities to the car, which he dumped in the California Aqueduct, deputies said.
Harper was being held without bail on suspicion of murder, Sieber said.
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