{"id":217064,"date":"2025-09-11T02:30:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T02:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/217064\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T02:30:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T02:30:13","slug":"police-arrest-second-suspect-in-double-killing-boy-16-from-tijuana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/217064\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest second suspect in double killing \u2013 boy, 16, from Tijuana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/Targeted-Shooting.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"502\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Targeted-Shooting.jpg\" alt=\"Police cruiser arrest suspect crime scene\" class=\"wp-image-263358\"  \/><\/a>A San Diego Police cruiser at the scene of a shooting. (File photo courtesy of SDPD)<\/p>\n<p>A teen-age suspect was in custody Wednesday in connection with the fatal shootings of two men at a Nestor storage lot over Labor Day weekend, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, a 16-year-old Tijuana resident whose name was withheld due to his age, was arrested Friday. He is the <a href=\"https:\/\/timesofsandiego.com\/crime\/2025\/09\/04\/man-24-arrested-on-charges-of-killing-two-in-nestor\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">second person taken into custody<\/a> in the case.<\/p>\n<p>The duo allegedly took part in the slayings of Aaron Cruz, 42, and Richard Hartung, 64, in the 2000 block of Sunset Avenue, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sandiego.gov\/police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">San Diego Police Department<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At about 3:30 a.m. Aug. 30, patrol officers responding to reports of gunfire found Cruz and Hartung dead inside the camping-style trailers they lived in at the storage facility just north of the border, Lt. Lou Maggi said.<\/p>\n<p>On Sept. 2, officers pulled over an SUV on West Calle Primera in San Ysidro and arrested the first suspect, David Verduzco Kruglova, 24. He is charged with first-degree murder and remains in custody ahead of an Oct. 16 hearing.<\/p>\n<p>Police have released no suspected motive in the case and have not disclosed the relationships, if any, between the victims and suspects.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A San Diego Police cruiser at the scene of a shooting. (File photo courtesy of SDPD) A teen-age&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":28545,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[5229,1582,276,118532,118533,105258,3549,22509,7264,55993,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-217064","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-california","11":"tag-fatal-shootings","12":"tag-first-degree-murder","13":"tag-nestor","14":"tag-san-diego","15":"tag-san-diego-police-department","16":"tag-sandiego","17":"tag-tijuana","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115183316483821692","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}