A loving father of two.
Was extremely hard-working.
Very likable, very personable.
Is ruthlessly killed outside his home.
There was numerous gunshot wounds to his upper torso.
Whoever shot the victim was extremely angry
and was sending a message.
Detectives hunt a cold-blooded murderer.
We identified the weapon as an AK-47.
He received a text message that said,
"Nobody messes with me."
People were fearing for their lives
because the killer was still out there.
The question starts to creep in of,
is this one that may never be solved?
Then, one phone call changes everything.
He said that he was in fear for his life,
for what he was gonna tell us.
We thought, wow, this is the first break that we've had.
Exposing a killer no one saw coming.
It hit you in the gut.
It was somebody that you
just never really would've expected.
Mammoth Lakes, California. A pristine
ski town in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
People come out here to vacation.
They come out here to go skiing, snowboarding.
And in the summer months it's hiking, bicycling, fishing.
It's beautiful.
The weather's always sunny.
There's always an outdoor aspect
that is just the most beautiful thing you've ever seen.
One early fall morning in 2016
turns into a nightmare for the town of Mammoth.
Mammoth Lakes Police department received
a 911 call at approximately 1:50 in the morning,
reporting just hearing a series of rapid gunfire
and that a neighbor across the street had been shot.
Police and first responders race to the scene.
Patrol officers found the victim lying in the driveway.
And he was lying face down in his own blood.
You had an individual who'd been shot multiple times.
And the victim's wife standing there and she's hysterical.
Paramedics arrive
and try to resuscitate the victim.
Police learn the victim is 35-year-old Omar Hernandez
and a homicide investigation is launched.
When I arrived on scene,
I've never seen anything like that.
Omar had approximately 15 gunshot wounds to his body.
There were bullet impact marks all over.
In total, there was 30 shell casings that were found.
The victim was laying alongside his vehicle.
There was numerous gunshot wounds to his upper torso.
His vehicle was still running,
coffee cup still laying there.
All indications that he was getting ready to go somewhere.
What was also noticed was there were divots
that were in the asphalt and in the driveway.
We definitely got the feeling that,
as the victim laid there,
he was continuously being shot.
I felt like it was extremely personal.
Whoever shot the victim was extremely angry
and was sending a message.
The shell casings provide another surprising,
but valuable clue.
The caliber of the bullet that was used,
that only comes from a high-powered assault rifle.
It was a 7.6 millimeter round,
so we believed it had to be AK-47.
To have a weapon of that sort here in Mammoth,
I thought was extremely unusual
because those are assault weapons.
Those are not hunting rifles.
We thought it was potentially gang related,
possibly some sort of hit.
That somebody definitely wanted to get the job done.
Could this have been a planned execution?
Detectives try to speak with Omar's wife, Gladys.
Gladys was hysterical, extremely upset, unable to talk.
And she was screaming.
Born in 1980,
Omar was raised by a single mother in Guadalajara, Mexico.
But knew his destiny lay elsewhere.
When Omar was 18 years old,
he headed to Mammoth on the advice of a friend.
And for eight years,
had been successfully working his way up
at the same company.
Omar had a good job here in Mammoth.
He was a supervisor at the Vons grocery store,
which is the main grocery store in Mammoth Lakes.
He was extremely hard working,
very likable, very personable.
At work, Omar was known to be a kind and caring,
almost big brother figure to a lot of the employees
that he supervised.
He took them under his wing
and really tried to help them feel like they belonged.
In 2006, Omar met Gladys Gastelum.
And romance quickly blossomed.
Omar and Gladys started a family,
welcoming the arrival of two sons.
The young family had a bright future,
starting with an event planned
for just days after Omar's murder.
Instead of a celebration,
Omar's loved ones must now organize a funeral.
Looking for answers, detectives questioned Gladys
about the hours leading up to the shooting.
She had gone to visit a family member
and Omar stayed home.
And she came home right
around 10:00 or 10:30 p.m. that night
and Omar was sleeping.
He was trying to get a good night's sleep
before the night shift.
According to Gladys,
at approximately 1:30 in the morning,
Omar had gotten up, made himself some coffee,
and went outside to start the car to warm it up.
And then shortly after he exited the back door
to go to work, she heard the loud gunfire
that made her jump up.
So she got dressed really quick, ran outside.
And that's when she saw Omar lying face down
in the driveway.
When police ask
if anyone held a grudge against Omar,
Gladys's response is immediate.
The name of Saul Morales came up.
Saul Morales had a problem with Omar
because Saul had always accused Omar
of having an extramarital affair
with his wife, Rosalinda,
who was also a employee at the Vons supermarket.
About a year or so before the murder occurred,
investigators learned that Saul had actually gone
to Omar and Gladys's home,
trying to confront Omar
over whether these affair rumors were true.
There were disputes between Omar and Saul.
Gladys tells investigators
that Saul's behavior had been disturbing.
Saul confronted her.
Told her that my wife is having an affair with your husband.
She noticed that he had been driving
by the house on a regular basis.
Gladys says she had seen Saul
drive by her house as recently
as just three days before Omar was killed.
Things became so bad,
Gladys tells police
that Omar filed a restraining order against Saul.
That was an attempt for Omar to get Saul
to stop coming to his house,
stop contacting his wife.
Could Saul's jealous rage
have driven him to murder?
Gladys indicated that she was afraid of Saul.
And she thought maybe he was so upset
over this alleged affair
that he possibly could have killed Omar.
And so Saul became a person of interest pretty quickly.
At that moment, we felt like, okay, maybe this is the guy.
Coming up.
Investigators uncover a menacing grudge.
He hated Omar.
He was there to teach Omar a lesson.
That is motive to murder somebody.
And shocking clues.
The sedan pulled over near where the crime scene occurred.
It was the same vehicle
that we'd seen in the video surveillance.
The shell casings recovered were fired from the same gun.
Before a surprise confession
reveals a cold-blooded killer.
He described how he just continued to shoot.
That was alarming.
I knew right then it was huge.
Hours after 35-year-old father of two,
Omar Hernandez, was gunned down in his own driveway,
his wife Gladys has pointed police
towards a possible killer.
Saul Morales was the first suspect in this case
because his wife, Rosalinda,
had reportedly been having an affair with Omar.
We found out that Saul confronted Omar about the affair.
Saul told Omar to leave his wife alone.
Omar was upset that Saul had come over to his house
while his kids were home.
There was a fight that broke out
between him and police were called.
Officers arrived on scene
and they were separated.
No charges were filed,
but there still was a documented incident.
Gladys did not believe
that Omar really did have an affair with Rosalinda.
But the important thing was if Saul believed it to be true,
then that is motive to murder somebody.
Needing more information
about the alleged affair
investigators head to Omar's workplace.
The coworkers described Omar as a nice guy
that got along with everybody.
The manager described Omar as a very hard working person,
dedicated to the job.
Was that employee that worked over and beyond
what was required of him.
The manager did tell me
that he had heard the rumors about Rosalinda
and Omar's extramarital relationship.
And also he did bring up the fact
that at times he would see Saul in Vons,
walking through the aisles
as though he wanted to catch Omar and Rosalinda together.
Learning Saul's wife, Rosalinda,
happens to be working her shift at the store,
detectives pull her aside for an interview.
She was very, very emotional.
Rosalinda found out about the murder
when she came in to work and became very upset.
Investigators confront Rosalinda
about the rumors.
Rosalinda denied that there was ever an affair
or that there was any sexual relations between her and Omar.
She said that her and Omar's relationship
was purely platonic.
And that her and him had been best friends.
And that's the extent of their relationship.
Rosalinda definitely gave me the sense
that she was nervous.
In talking to Rosalinda,
she appeared to be holding back.
At this point, investigators weren't sure
whether the affair was a rumor,
whether it was true.
It seemed like the jealousy involved
in the case could have been enough for murder.
When you see a murder that gruesome with that many bullets
and that much violence,
it comes out of some strong emotion.
Police know that,
even if Saul had motive for murder,
he also needed the opportunity.
We asked Rosalinda where Saul was the previous night.
And Rosalinda said that Saul was in bed
with her the whole night.
And then she ended up getting up for work
around three that morning.
And he was still in bed.
I wouldn't say that that particular alibi was rock solid.
So interviewing him was very important,
just to find out if their stories matched.
Investigators bring Saul down to the station.
When I interviewed Saul,
he was extremely calm, extremely courteous,
and extremely cooperative.
He was very forthcoming about the altercations
that had occurred with Omar in the past.
And that he was afraid
that Omar had had an affair with his wife.
Investigators ask Saul
to account for his movements
in the hours leading up to the murder.
Saul claimed that he had gone to visit his uncle.
And he was with his uncle throughout the night,
before coming home.
And went to bed right around 11 o'clock that evening.
He said that he was asleep in his bed
on the night of the murder and had nothing to do with it.
He voluntarily provided a DNA reference sample
to exclude him.
Getting DNA from Saul was extremely important
because he was a prime suspect in the shooting.
And because,
with fingerprints coming off the bullet casings,
you can match the DNA.
Saul also allows detectives to search his home.
I searched the house for weapons, ammunition,
or any evidence that could tie him to the crime.
But I never found anything
that would lead me to believe he had weapons
or ammunition in the house.
When the results come in,
Saul's DNA does not match the DNA found
on the spent shell casings.
His story seemed to be making sense.
It seemed to be consistent.
There was no indicators that he was lying to us.
And so we didn't have anything to really move on.
I didn't find him to be suspicious.
He just wasn't connecting the dots for me.
And from my training and experience,
he did not give me any indication
that he was involved in the shooting.
And so that was really frustrating.
With detectives forced
to put Saul on the back burner,
they revisit the theory that Omar's murder
could have been a professional hit.
The weapon used, the AK-47.
It's a weapon of murder, a weapon of violence.
And so the nature of that weapon alone made people think
this has something to do with a gang.
Because of the brutal nature of the crime,
something we were looking at, is this the cartel?
Is this a paid hit?
It's gotta be big because of the way it was done.
Police investigating the ruthless shooting
of Omar Hernandez outside his home
in Mammoth Lakes, California
now suspect he might have been targeted by a criminal gang.
There was speculation that maybe this was a drug deal
that went bad.
And the cartel had come up and put a hit on Omar.
Investigators went looking through Omar's background
to see if there was any drug affiliations
or anything that could have been tied to organized crime.
I didn't find anything in Omar's background
that would indicate he had any gang association whatsoever.
Investigators move on
from the gangland hit theory.
Several days later,
they discover there's security camera footage
from a building near Omar's home
and hope the video will provide new leads.
The closest camera that had any video surveillance
was several hundred yards down the street.
So you were capturing vehicles coming and going.
Unfortunately, there were no cameras
that were able to actually capture the crime
as it occurred.
What the security footage documented
was a vehicle circling the area several times
prior to the shooting.
We had what we believed
was a light-colored four-door sedan.
We felt pretty confident that it was a Toyota Camry
or a Toyota Corolla.
We felt like that vehicle possibly was involved.
Police spot another suspicious vehicle
in the footage.
There was a red sedan-type vehicle
that was seen at the intersection,
driving down towards the victim residence.
What was notable was it appeared less
than two minutes prior to when the murder took place.
And then the sedan pulled over
near where the crime scene occurred.
Unfortunately, with the low image quality,
we weren't able to identify who was in the suspect vehicles.
Undeterred, police show the footage
to Omar's wife,
hoping she can identify the vehicles.
The red sedan provokes a strong reaction.
Gladys said that day after the shooting,
a red sedan drove by with two people inside of it
that she recognized as Vons employees.
She did say that they gave her a slow roll type of look
as though letting her know they were watching her.
Or maybe even they were involved.
Gladys told investigators
that the two individuals in the car
were a Jose Antonio Corea Vasquez
and Eliud Corea Vasquez.
They were cousins.
Gladys knew Eliud and Jose Antonio as coworkers of Omar's.
At the time, their reputation was
that they were MS-13 gang members from El Salvador.
Detectives head to Vons
to talk with Jose Antonio and Eliud's coworkers.
Employees did tell me
that Omar was the supervisor for the Salvadorians.
And it appeared that they didn't like Omar.
They didn't like taking orders from him.
Investigators learn
that Omar had been promoted to a management position
a few months before his murder.
And that there was constant friction between him and Eliud.
Eliud and Omar did not get along.
In fact, there had actually been an incident
between the two of them
where Eliud had been sent home
for not doing his job properly.
Eliud became so upset that he contacted the union
and made a formal complaint against Omar.
Did Eliud take matters into his own hands
with deadly consequences?
There's one more detail about him that raises suspicions.
Eliud drove a red sedan.
And it seemed to be a possible match
to the car that was on the surveillance video.
However, when we looked closer
at the red sedan and Eliud's red sedan,
it was clear immediately that they did not match.
And that was not Eliud's car in that surveillance video.
With Eliud looking less likely as the killer,
investigators turned their focus
to his cousin, Jose Antonio.
He claimed to have some association to some gangs.
We subsequently served a search warrant at his residence.
We did find assault weapons,
although they ended up being imitation airsoft-type weapons.
So obviously they weren't involved
in the actual murder itself.
We didn't find any definitive ties to Salvadorian gangs.
I think it was just their bravado
and they had a heavy reputation.
And they knew people were afraid of them.
Without anything concrete linking Jose Antonio
or Eliud to Omar's death,
detectives are forced to move on.
That was just super frustrating.
It just seemed like at every corner,
there was something that we thought
was going to really point us in the right direction
and really break the case open for us.
And it just was another dead end.
Just as the case threatens to hit a wall,
investigators scouring Omar's cell phone activity
make a jaw-dropping discovery.
And combing through thousands and thousands
of text messages,
we did find many text messages
where he and Rosalinda spoke to each other.
And it became very clear
that the rumors of the affair were definitely true.
It also became apparent
that not only was there an affair with Rosalinda,
but that Gladys knew about the affair.
That was a cause for concern
because initially the affair was denied by all parties
at first when the investigation began.
The texts force investigators
to rethink everything.
Why did Gladys and Rosalinda lie?
Were either of them trying to cover up for a crime?
And had Saul learned the truth and done the unthinkable?
There was a lot of evidence that showed
that there were enough emotional ties involved in that
that somebody could be angry enough
to kill someone based off of that infidelity.
Weeks have passed since father-of-two,
Omar Hernandez, was brutally gunned down.
Detectives have just obtained proof a rumored affair
between Omar and coworker Rosalinda did actually take place.
Omar was involved romantically with Rosalinda.
And through cell phone forensics,
we located text messages that definitely confirmed
that Omar had a conversation with Gladys as well
about the affair that confirmed that she knew about it.
Gladys had previously told police
there was nothing to the rumored affair.
So investigators had to speak to her again.
When we asked Gladys about the affair,
she broke down crying.
And she confirmed the rumors to be true.
Gladys described how she found out about the affair
with Rosalinda back in 2014.
She had returned home early from a trip to Mexico.
And when she came back to their house,
Omar wasn't there.
But there was burned wax and rose petals on the bed,
on the floor around it.
And she knew they weren't for her.
So couple days after,
she ended up going through her husband's phone
and found the text messages between Omar and Rosalinda
which confirmed to her that he had had an affair.
Detectives asked Gladys
why she lied to them before.
What was she trying to hide?
Her reasoning behind lying about the affair
was simply to protect Omar's reputation.
He had a good reputation and she wanted to maintain that.
And also, according to Gladys,
they were working through their problems
to keep their family together.
She just didn't wanna have anything negative
to say about her husband.
He'd been brutally murdered.
She kind of wanted to leave it at that.
Let's investigate
and try to figure out the person responsible.
Police are also curious
why Rosalinda had been untruthful
and bring her in to the station.
And told her we knew
that she did have an affair with Omar.
She told us that she lied
because she was embarrassed about it.
But also that she didn't want to inflame things with Saul.
We asked her whether he knew about the affair or not.
She confirmed that he did know about it.
She was definitely concerned about her husband.
I asked her flat out
if she believed that Saul may have killed Omar.
And her answer to my question was,
"I don't believe he pulled the trigger."
So of course that was alarming.
I thought maybe I missed something at the beginning.
And that there was a potential
that Saul may have actually
even hired someone to kill Omar.
It presents difficulty because then you have to backtrack
and look at the initial suspect once again
and make sure you haven't overlooked anything.
Investigators re-look at Saul.
But after combing through phone records and texts,
find no evidence he hired anyone to kill Omar
or that he committed the crime himself.
At this point, the evidence did not bear fruit
that Saul was the suspect we were looking for.
His alibi checked out.
There was nothing else that ever came up
that pointed him as being the one who did this.
Saul is cleared once again.
With yet another busted lead and no arrest in sight,
police have to contend with the fear
that's gripping Mammoth Lakes.
It was pretty hard for the community
to have all these investigations going on
and talk of murder and gossip of violence
and the things that led to it.
But no answers.
Just dead ends.
I think people genuinely were fearing for their lives
because the killer was still out there.
Despite months of tireless work,
investigators run out of leads.
The case essentially went cold.
There was nothing
to indicate any one person was responsible.
At this point,
we're well over a year into the investigation.
And the question starts to creep in of,
is this one that may never be solved?
It starts to weigh on you
because we've formed relationships with Gladys
and we want nothing more
than to bring justice for her family.
It definitely wears on you as an investigator.
You constantly ask yourself, what did I miss?
There's gotta be something there that I missed.
We had always been feeling
that if we could just get that one piece of information
that could lead us to the suspect,
we'll develop the rest.
But we needed somebody to come forward
and give us a break that we needed to solve that case.
2 1/2 years later,
detectives receive just that.
An explosive phone call that upends the whole case.
In June, 2019,
a person called and said
that they know who killed Omar
and has some concerns for their own safety.
In my mind, I felt that that's the big break
that we needed.
Sometimes that's all it is.
One person with information.
I knew right then it was huge.
2 1/2 years since the brutal slaying
of Omar Hernandez,
an informant has come forward with information
that blows the case wide open.
A man by the name of Francisco Ramirez came
into our office.
And you could tell that something was scaring him.
He said that he was in fear for his life
for what he was gonna tell us.
Francisco started telling us about this individual.
His name was Josue Corea Vasquez.
And he was a coworker at Vons.
They both worked the night shift.
Francisco worked with Josue.
And Josue was actually
the brother to Eliud.
And he describes this contentious relationship
between Omar and Eliud and Josue.
Months before the murder,
says that they were constantly butting heads
with one another.
Described Eliud and Josue as constantly disrespecting Omar.
Omar would delegate tasks that need to be completed
and Eliud and Josue would always be disrespectful
and say, "Well, why do we gotta do that?
Nah, I don't think so."
Was just constantly kind of challenging him.
Josue had actually told Francisco that he hated Omar
because he had been disrespected
and that he had threatened to fire his whole family.
And that he had to take matters into his own hands.
Then, just several hours after the murder had occurred,
Francisco told us
that he received a text message from Josue.
And it said something to the effect of,
"See? I'm not playing around."
And then there was another text message that said,
"Nobody messes with me."
When he saw the text message,
he felt very strongly that that is Josue's way
of telling him he just murdered Omar.
Francisco then divulges
another disturbing piece of information.
Francisco told us that he had actually gone shooting
with Josue months prior to the murder.
They had gone out in the middle of the forest
and that Josue had brought an AK-47 with him.
And were just shooting targets.
When Francisco mentioned AK-47,
obviously all of our ears perked up
as that's the weapon we were looking for.
And then several years after Omar was murdered,
Francisco became the manager to take Omar's place at Vons.
And he's now in a position to where he needs to delegate.
And he's now seeing the same disrespectful tone from Josue.
At some point in time,
he and Josue got into an argument.
And Josue says something to the effect of,
"Don't make me do to you what I did to Omar."
We asked Francisco why he is now just coming forward,
2 1/2 years after the murder.
And Francisco said that he was scared of Josue.
He was concerned for his safety.
And he wanted to tell law enforcement about what he knew.
Because he said, if something is to happen to me,
I want you guys to know who's responsible.
Francisco realized I could be the one that's next.
And this guy needs to be stopped.
Detectives contact Gladys
to gather more information about the working relationship
between Omar and Josue.
Gladys did tell us that
when Josue first came to the States,
he didn't have a lotta friends.
He didn't know very many people.
And Omar had taken Josue under his wing.
Omar was kind to him.
Would bring him food for lunch breaks.
Really seemed to keep an eye on Josue
and care about his wellbeing.
Omar and Josue seem to get along
for many months during that time period.
But Gladys told us that once Omar
was promoted to supervisor,
things started to change between Omar and Josue.
Omar had a job to do.
And as Omar started giving more direction
and instructions to Josue,
Josue started to be a bit more belligerent towards him.
Talking back, refusing to do certain things.
There had been reported conflicts between the two
and that Josue had felt like Omar was on a power trip.
They didn't get along at work.
They were constantly arguing with one another.
Could a workplace conflict
have turned in into murder?
Investigators pulled the employee time sheets
for the night Omar was killed.
We went back through the Vons records from that night
to see when people clocked in.
And we noticed that Josue did not work at all that night.
We also looked into what vehicle does Josue drive.
Detectives are hopeful
that Josue's car will be a match
to one of two vehicles spotted
in the surveillance footage.
We determined that at the time of the murder in 2016,
he did, in fact, own a 2012 silver Toyota Camry.
That vehicle, shortly after the murder,
had been resold to another individual.
So we ended up finding that vehicle down
in another part of California.
And it was the same vehicle
that we'd seen in the video surveillance.
It matched the color and the make and model
of what we were looking for.
At that moment,
we felt that we had the person responsible
for the murder of Omar.
Needing hard evidence
to tie Josue to the murder,
detectives head to the area
where Francisco had witnessed him firing an AK-47.
It wasn't a designated shooting range.
It was a dirt road off of a main highway.
We went out to the range
where he said that he shot with Josue.
And we were actually able to recover 56 cartridges
that were just below the dirt.
All of these cartridges were extremely important
because, as we grabbed the first cartridge,
we saw it had the same head stamp of the cartridges
found at the murder scene.
When we found shell casings,
it just really hit you in the gut.
We thought, wow, this is the first break that we've had.
2 1/2 years after Omar Hernan
investigators hoped they finally got a break
after discovering spent bullet casings
that appear to match those recovered from the crime scene.
We found north of 50
expended projectiles in the
dirt and sent those casings back
to the laboratory for comparison.
After we compared the two casings together,
one from the murder scene and one from the shooting range,
the lab told us that they were fired
from the same gun.
This was huge in the investigation.
We have an identified suspect
and we have physical evidence.
On January 30th, 2020,
Josue Corea Vasquez is arrested for Omar's murder.
After Josue was arrested,
we brought him in for an interview.
We knew that the shell casings recovered at the crime scene
were the same as the shooting range.
What we didn't have was a way to tie that in to Josue.
So what we decided to do was
create a fake DNA profile
that would be shown to Josue.
And what it said was that we recovered DNA
from the shell casings.
And that it matched somebody
of the same age and ethnicity as Josue.
The goal of having the DNA profile
was in hopes that it would push Josue to tell the truth.
Detectives also use another tactic
and make an emotional appeal.
Investigator Callinan actually had a photograph
of Omar's children on his desk.
I showed him the kids.
And I said, "These kids, they don't deserve
what happened to him.
Let's try to give 'em some closure."
Josue stuns investigators
with what he says next.
It was a monumental moment that we felt,
okay, we've got the right guy.
The question remains,
why would Josue commit such a heinous crime?
Josue told us he hated Omar.
He hated that he would tell him how to do his job.
He hated that he would be tough on him.
He felt that he was disrespected by Omar.
And he was there to teach Omar lesson.
Josue proceeded to tell investigators
what happened that fatal night.
He said that he drove by Omar's residence
a number of times.
Confirmed that the vehicle in the video surveillance
was, in fact, his vehicle.
Just before 2:00 AM,
Josue parked across the street from Omar's home.
And he waited for him to come out.
He saw Omar come out of his residence.
And that was the moment that he'd been waiting for.
He grabbed the AK-47.
When Omar went to the driver's side of the door to leave,
Josue emerged from the trees and yelled at him,
"You don't look so invincible now, do you?"
And described shooting him several times.
He described the look in Omar's face.
The surprise, the shock.
Josue said that after he murdered Omar, he went home.
He went to bed.
A lot of Josue's interview was matter of fact,
which was chilling in and of itself
that you can have murdered somebody
and just be talking about it in such an unemotional way.
Josue admits that several days
after killing Omar,
he told his brother, Eliud, what he had done.
Eliud was concerned about the murder weapon
and whether it could be traced back to Josue.
So Eliud took it upon himself
to take the AK-47 to the forest and bury it
so no one would ever be able to find it.
Based on Josue's confession,
police bring in Eliud.
He eventually admitted to us
that he did help dispose of the gun.
And gave us the details about where it was.
And he pointed to the exact location
where the firearm would be recovered.
So we dug right there and, sure enough, found an AK-47.
At this point, it's kind of a prosecutor's dream.
We have a confession statement from the defendant
and the murder weapon
that we never thought we would recover just showed up.
For his part in the crime,
Eliud is sentenced to a year in jail.
Eliud was charged as being an accessory after the fact.
He was charged for helping dispose of the murder weapon
and not telling authorities about it.
On January 18th, 2022,
Josue is sentenced to two life terms in prison
for the murder of Omar Hernandez.
The biggest surprise was that it was somebody
that you just never really would've expected.
Omar had taken Josue under his wing.
By all accounts, Omar cared very much about Josue.
That's what was so troubling in this case,
Omar lost his life, was brutally murdered,
for no reason other than he was a hard working individual
who had expectations.
Omar's family still feels the deep impact
of his loss.