Suspect arrested in killing of Bexar County deputy
ASSOCIATED PRESS June 5, 2011
SAN ANTONIO — A San Antonio-area man was arrested Sunday on a capital murder warrant in the slaying a week before of a Bexar County sheriff's deputy, authorities said.
Federal and local officials arrested Mark Anthony Gonzales at his family's mobile home 15 miles south of San Antonio around 4 p.m. Sunday, after FBI agents swarmed the property and ordered him and his wife to exit the home, according to a sheriff's office statement.
...Gonzales and his wife were being questioned by detectives Sunday night and neither had been booked into Bexar County Jail, Deputy Chief Dale Bennett said. Neither had an attorney, he said.
"Everyone is really relieved because everyone's been really tense," Sheriff Amadeo Ortiz told reporters Sunday evening.
Gonzales' arrest came two days after sheriff's Sgt. Kenneth Vann was buried with full military and sheriff's office honors after his ambush-style slaying while he was stopped at an east San Antonio intersection May 28.
Investigators had been looking for a blue pickup truck that had been seen pulling up to Vann's patrol car at the time of the shooting. Authorities say a truck matching the description of the suspect vehicle was found registered to Gonzales at a San Antonio body shop. Investigators suspect an automatic weapon found at the Gonzales home fired the deadly shot, according to the sheriff's office statement.
Investigators had said shortly after the slaying a week ago that they did not believe Vann was specifically targeted, but that the killer may have been looking for a law enforcement officer to kill. Authorities had not established a motive as of Sunday night.
SGT Vann, hopefully you rest easier now....God be with you and your family...
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