Vallejo police said they have arrested 18-year-old Terrell Elbert Blutcher Jr. on suspicion of killing two people in separate shootings on Oct. 6, CBS News Bay Area reported. Bay City News reported via SFGATE that police located him in a vehicle near Broadway and Tennessee streets on Tuesday just before 4:30 p.m. and arrested him after a traffic stop.
Why it matters: Both outlets, citing police, said the first shooting was near Springs Road and Castlewood Drive around 8 a.m. on Oct. 6, and that a man in a vehicle was found with at least one gunshot wound after crashing into an unoccupied car in the 2400 block of Springs Road. CBS said that victim died on Oct. 12. Bay City News, also citing the department, said the man was declared deceased at 10:40 p.m.; the report does not make clear whether that was the same day as the shooting. The two accounts differ on the date of death and should not be merged.
About 20 minutes after the first call, officers responded to a shooting in the 200 block of Marin Street, both reports said. Bay City News identified the second victim as Devaughn McBride, 32, a U.S. Postal Service letter carrier who had started the job in June, and quoted a USPS spokesperson as saying, “We are extremely saddened and we’ll keep his family in our prayers.” McBride died at the hospital, the report said.
Bay City News said the Solano County District Attorney’s Office charged Blutcher on Thursday with two counts of homicide and that a warrant was issued. CBS said investigators secured an arrest warrant on Nov. 5 and that he was arrested on suspicion of two counts of murder, plus a Napa County warrant for possession of a controlled substance. Both outlets reported the Napa warrant. He has not been convicted, and the case remains in the courts.