ORANGE : Tip Leads to Arrest of Folsom Inmate in 1991 Shooting Outside Bank

Police have named a Folsom prison inmate as the suspect in the 1991 fatal shooting of an Orange man who had just withdrawn $20,000 in cash from his bank, authorities said Tuesday.

John Clyde Abel was arrested after an anonymous tip led detectives to link him to the killing of Armando Miller, Orange Police Sgt. Mike Pettifer said. Miller, 26, was walking out of a Sunwest Bank branch on 1st Street when he was shot in the forehead, police said.

Investigators passed out composite sketches of the killer at the time, but “all of our leads led us nowhere,” Pettifer said.

The break in the case came in late 1994, when an anonymous caller directed police to Abel, who had been serving a sentence at Folsom Prison near Sacramento for an armed robbery in 1992, investigators said.