The main suspect in the shooting death of a 16-year-old Wapato boy last year is in custody.
Delfino Juan Benson, 19, surrendered Friday at the Puyallup Police Department, according to a news release from the Yakima County Sheriff's Office.
Sheriff's detectives on Oct. 23 announced that they had arrested three other suspects in the Nov. 12, 2008, death of Ricky Cabrera. Last week, a warrant was issued for Benson's arrest.
Cabrera was fatally shot while walking to a nearby store from his home on North Track Road.
Detectives say the suspects were cruising the Wapato area for rival gang members, hoping to stage a retaliatory attack because of a fatal shooting in Sunnyside.
The suspects recognized a friend with Cabrera as a gang member, and Benson opened fire on the pair, detectives say. Cabrera's family acknowledges that his brothers are gang members, but relatives say they tried to keep him out of gangs.
http://www.yakima-herald.com/stories/2009/11/02/suspect-in-shooting-death-turns-self-in
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