LAPD arrests 2, including 16-year-old, in fatal shooting on Metro train
Editor’s note: This story was updated to correct the charges filed in this case.
A 16-year-old boy and 20-year-old man have been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting on Los Angeles Metro train last month.
Oscar Martinez of Los Angeles and the teen, whose identity was not released, were taken into custody on Wednesday, the Los Angeles Police Department said in a news release.
On the evening of June 21, Juan Garcia, 38, was fatally shot on the E line near the La Cienega/Jefferson station in West Adams.
Garcia was shot in the head with other passengers nearby, police said, and he was declared dead at the scene.
“It appears there was some kind of argument between a group of males down here on the ground level,” LAPD Capt. Jamie Bennett said at the time. “They ran up the stairs and boarded a train that had been waiting here to unload passengers. The shooting occurred on the train. Then the suspects left the platform running down the staircase.”
Witnesses said three males were involved, though the identity of the alleged third attacker has not been released, and no information has been announced about his arrest.
Martinez faces a murder charge and a count of assault with a semi-automatic firearm, and he is being held in lieu of $2 million bail. The teen was charged with murder, police said.
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