Overview
- Police say 53-year-old Fernando Gaitan was arrested Wednesday and booked into jail in connection with the 2014 homicide.
- Prosecutors indicated he faces first-degree murder, burglary, kidnapping, aggravated assault charges.
- Investigators report Gaitan was part of a group that broke into a home near 41st and Maryland avenues on July 31, 2014.
- Authorities say the intruders confronted Augustine Valenzuela, who was beaten and stabbed as his family was held at gunpoint; he later died at a hospital.
- Detectives credit DNA evidence developed years after the crime for the breakthrough, with police not yet disclosing where Gaitan was found or the status of two other suspects.