06-23-2014, 02:21 PM
(01-27-2014, 01:17 AM)ZEROSPHERES Wrote: This killer definitely had an accomplice or it done by contract.
Could be, Zero. I hope we learn a lot more a little later today.
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SAN DIEGO - San Diego police remained tight-lipped Sunday about motives or other details surrounding the arrest of a suspect in a Christmas Eve triple homicide.
Chief Shelly Zimmerman will hold a news conference at 11:30 a.m. Monday to discuss the arrest of Carlo Gallopa Mercado, 29. He was taken into custody at about 10:30 p.m. Friday in the 8700 block of Westmore Road, a suburban street on Mira Mesa.
Mercado was booked at 7:24 a.m. Saturday for three counts of first-degree murder for the Christmas Eve killing of Ilona Flint and Salvatore Belvedere, both 22, as well as the killing of Salvatore's brother and Flint's fiancé Gianni, 24, whose body was found in the trunk of a car in January.
10News learned late Sunday afternoon that Mercado was transferred from jail to a hospital for an undisclosed injury. It could not be confirmed Monday morning if he was back in jail or still in the hospital.
A friend of the Belvedere family told 10News a resident of the home where Mercado was arrested knows relatives of Sal and Gianni, but it is unclear if the Belvedere brothers knew the suspect.
U-T San Diego reported that Mercado was initially arrested on gun-related charges April 29. His attorney Michael Berg told reporters Sunday that authorities found weapons in his vehicle after he was randomly stopped at an Interstate 5 checkpoint near Camp Pendleton. The date of that incident was not immediately confirmed.
He was initially charged with possession of an assault weapon, possession of a silencer, manufacturing a large-capacity magazine and having a concealed weapon in the vehicle. But he pleaded guilty to a felony charge of possessing the silencer, and prosecutors dropped the remaining charges, U-T San Diego reported.
http://www.10news.com/news/man-arrested-...s-06212014