Overview
- Prosecutors charged Humberto Rodriguez Martinez with one count of murder with a special-circumstance allegation of lying in wait and a knife-use enhancement under a 2017 $2 million warrant.
- Mexican authorities, assisted by the U.S. Marshals Service, located and arrested him in 2024, leading to his Dec. 4, 2025 extradition and transfer to Anaheim detectives at LAX.
- He was arraigned in Orange County Superior Court on Jan. 6, 2026, entered a not-guilty plea, and remains jailed without bail.
- Investigators say Daniel Reyes, 32, was chased from the area near an Anaheim apartment and fatally stabbed on Oct. 17, 2017 after suspects allegedly waited outside.
- Co-defendant Adan Zapot-Leyva was arrested two days later, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in 2023, and is serving a 15-years-to-life sentence.