A 19-year-old man is sched­uled to ap­pear at the Ari­ma Mag­is­trates’ Court on Mon­day 6th De­cem­ber 2021, af­ter be­ing charged with the No­vem­ber 26th mur­der of An­tho­ny Fuentes.

DE­VON HER­NAN­DEZ (al­so called DE­VON FER­NAN­DEZ) of La Re­treat Road, Ari­ma, was charged on Fri­day 3rd De­cem­ber 2021, fol­low­ing ad­vice re­ceived from Di­rec­tor of Pub­lic Pros­e­cu­tions, Mr. Roger Gas­pard SC.

Of­fi­cial po­lice re­ports state the ac­cused was charged with mur­der; pos­ses­sion of a firearm; pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion; pos­ses­sion of firearm to en­dan­ger life; and pos­ses­sion of am­mu­ni­tion to en­dan­ger life.

HER­NAN­DEZ was ar­rest­ed in con­nec­tion with the death of Fuentes, 20, a self-em­ployed scav­enger of Ari­ma, which oc­curred on No­vem­ber 26th at Riv­er Val­ley Road, La Re­treat Road, Ari­ma.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, around 9:20 pm on No­vem­ber 26th, a man was at his home with a few oth­ers when he al­leged­ly ob­served six men ap­proach­ing his home, all of whom were armed with firearms. He raised an alarm and he and an­oth­er per­son ran from the house.

The house al­leged­ly was sur­round­ed by the men; a few mo­ments lat­er gun­fire was heard. The men then left the scene of the in­ci­dent mak­ing their es­cape. The two per­sons then re­turned to their home and dis­cov­ered the body of a man on a couch in the liv­ing room area with mul­ti­ple gun­shot wounds about his body. A check al­so re­vealed that $2,600 be­long­ing to the de­ceased al­so was miss­ing from the house.

HER­NAN­DEZ was ar­rest­ed on Sat­ur­day 27th No­vem­ber 2021 by of­fi­cers of the North­ern Di­vi­sion Task Force.

The in­ves­ti­ga­tion was su­per­vised by ASP Dou­glas, In­sps Ho­sein, Mungroo and W/In­sp (Ag.) Sylvester of the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions, Re­gion II.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions in­to the oth­er sus­pects con­tin­ue.