Son arrested in Elk Grove double homicide, police say. He reported his parents’ death
Elk Grove police arrested the son of two victims killed at a home last week that authorities called a double homicide.
Officers were called about 2 p.m. Friday to the 9000 block of Crosscourt Way, a home in the Perry Ranch neighborhood and blocks away from Arthur C. Butler Elementary School and the private Merryhill School.
Archived radio dispatch calls reviewed by The Sacramento Bee indicated the son found a man and woman inside a garage with “obvious signs” of a suspicious death, according to The Bee’s previous reporting. Elk Grove police spokesman Sgt. Jason Jimenez declined to say if the victims were married.
Jimenez said the son, Mark Navarrete, claimed he went to his parents’ home after “several unsuccessful attempts to contact them” but the 44-year-old was subsequently arrested in their deaths.
“Additionally, Navarrete told officers one of his parents’ vehicles was missing from their garage,” Jimenez wrote in a news release.
Video footage shows Navarrete leaving his parents’ home in the victims’ car, which was later recovered by police, Jimenez said.
Navarrete faces two murder charges, Jimenez said, after he was booked into Sacramento County Main Jail on Sunday. He is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday, according to jail records.
The victims have not been identified by the Sacramento County Coroner’s Office pending next-of-kin notification.
