SPALDING COUNTY, Ga. — Five months after two men were found dead in a burning pickup truck in Spalding County, the sheriff’s office has announced another arrest.
Deputies said they arrested Carmen Emilio Torres Thursday in Stockbridge. Torres is the fourth person arrested and charged with killing Joshua Wyatt and Carlos Benford back in April.
Investigators believe Torres and at least three other people shot and killed the men at a nearby home, placed in the pickup truck and moved to the field off Jackson Road where the truck was set on fire to help conceal the crime.
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“In the days after Joshua and Carlos’s bodies were found, we executed a search warrant at a residence in Dutchman Road,” said Spalding County Sheriff Darrel Dix. “Even though the home had been cleaned and almost all the contents had been piled up and burned in the yard, SCSO Crime Scene Investigators were able to recover evidence and locate what we believe to be the room where the murders took place”.
Torres is facing charges of malice murder, felon murder, armed robbery, aggravated assault, false imprisonment, tampering with evidence, concealing the death of another and arson.
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Shortly after finding the truck on April 13, investigators were able to link several people to the home where they believe the actual murders took place.
Erik Eduardo Cabrea-Lopez was arrested on April 15 after a brief chase in Fulton County. Cabrea Lopez is charged with two counts of murder, two counts of felony murder, two counts of malice murder, two counts of aggravated assault, two counts of kidnapping, two counts of concealing a death and two counts of tampering with evidence.
Dix told reporters shortly after the arrest that Cabrea-Lopez had met with Wyatt and Benford about possibly putting together some kind of performance space.
“It was a senseless, tragic, completely uncalled for deaths of these two men, and hopefully we are going to be able to get some justice for them and justice for their families,” Dix said.
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Deputies have also arrested Alicia Rojo-Sanchez and Kristen Cordero-Rojas. They are both facing murder and other related charges associated with the incident.
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