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Sacramento police on Tuesday night arrested a 30-year-old man for the April 10 slaying of 29-year-old Dusty Vasquez, who was gunned down in the doorway of her Hagginwood neighborhood home.
The Police Department's Career Criminal Apprehension Team, assisted by Oakland and San Leandro police officers, arrested David Denson in San Leandro at about 7 p.m. He was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail just after midnight on one count of murder and two counts of attempted murder, according to booking records.
Denson is being held without bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.
About 7 a.m. April 10, Sacramento police officers arrived at a home on the 3000 block of Del Paso Boulevard and found Vasquez shot to death in the front doorway. Her brother and mother also had been shot, but survived the attack.
Detectives identified Denson as a suspect early on, but could not find him. Sacramento police Sgt. Norm Leong said no other suspects have been identified in the case.
Leong said detectives are not sure of the motive behind Vasquez's killing.
With Denson behind bars, Sacramento police have made arrests in five of six homicides this year - a remarkably low caseload for detectives, given that Sacramento city saw 15 homicides in the same period in 2008, according to police.
Detectives have identified a possible suspect in the sixth homicide - the fatal shooting of Fernando Munoz in North Sacramento - and are waiting for the District Attorney's Office to finish reviewing the case before an arrest warrant can be sought, Leong said.
Also in 2009, homicide detectives have made arrests in 10 cold cases dating back as far as 1991. Leong said this year's unusually low number of homicides has allowed detectives to revisit and make progress on old cases.
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The Police Department's Career Criminal Apprehension Team, assisted by Oakland and San Leandro police officers, arrested David Denson in San Leandro at about 7 p.m. He was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail just after midnight on one count of murder and two counts of attempted murder, according to booking records.
Denson is being held without bail. He is scheduled to be arraigned Thursday.
About 7 a.m. April 10, Sacramento police officers arrived at a home on the 3000 block of Del Paso Boulevard and found Vasquez shot to death in the front doorway. Her brother and mother also had been shot, but survived the attack.
Detectives identified Denson as a suspect early on, but could not find him. Sacramento police Sgt. Norm Leong said no other suspects have been identified in the case.
Leong said detectives are not sure of the motive behind Vasquez's killing.
With Denson behind bars, Sacramento police have made arrests in five of six homicides this year - a remarkably low caseload for detectives, given that Sacramento city saw 15 homicides in the same period in 2008, according to police.
Detectives have identified a possible suspect in the sixth homicide - the fatal shooting of Fernando Munoz in North Sacramento - and are waiting for the District Attorney's Office to finish reviewing the case before an arrest warrant can be sought, Leong said.
Also in 2009, homicide detectives have made arrests in 10 cold cases dating back as far as 1991. Leong said this year's unusually low number of homicides has allowed detectives to revisit and make progress on old cases.
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