A 14-year-old California boy killed 33 years ago was murdered by a man who was gunned down by the FBI in 2007 while living under a different name in Ohio, authorities revealed on Tuesday.
The teenager, Raymond Ojeda, was shot to death in the Foxdale Loop area of San Jose on Sept. 28, 1991, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorneyâs Office.
His killer, Gerardo Aguilar, who was 15 years old at the time, was identified by police and a juvenile warrant was issued for his arrest but he âdisappearedâ before he could be apprehended, officials said.
Earlier this year, the DAâs Cold Case Unit identified a man living in Ohio under the name Gerardo Mulato, a dead man, as a possible match for Aguilar.
SCCDAO investigator John Cary, going off a âhunch,â did a background search and found that Aguilarâs sister’s last name was Mulato.
He found photographs of a man âwho looked a lot like the suspectâ and went by the name âGerardo Mulato,â in Forest Park, outside of Cincinnati.
âDNA analysis confirmed they were the same person. Aguilar had been living in Ohio under the (last) name Mulato for several years,â the DAâs office wrote.
Aguilarâs criminal activity continued once he fled California.
He was arrested under the name Mulato in 2004 for assault with a baseball bat in Springfield, Ohio, officials said.
In 2007, the FBI began investigating Aguilar for drug trafficking crimes.
Aguilar saw the FBI installing a tracking device on his car and, believing they were car thieves, pulled a gun.
An agent fatally shot him. Aguilar was 33-years-old.
âItâs never too late to identify a killer,â District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a statement.
âPeople may forget. But victimsâ families and my office do not.â
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