Sunday, December 12, 1999
Beating-death suspect caught
4th alleged attacker nabbed in Houston
BY MARIE McCAIN
The Cincinnati Enquirer
The flight of Mauricio Salazar, accused in the fatal beating of a Forest Park man, has come to an end.
Mr. Salazar, 28, was arrested in Houston on Thursday after eluding the FBI and Cincinnati police for more than six months. He waived extradition and was returned to Cincinnati, and is jailed in the Hamilton County Justice Center.
Mr. Salazar was wanted in connection with the April 24 beating death of Mecias Gonzales. Police say Mr. Salazar and three other men, including his brother Mario, 26, confronted Mr. Gonzales, 20, and attacked him.
Friends of Mr. Gonzales found him wandering and disoriented in the street. He later lapsed into a coma and died May 6.
Besides the Salazar brothers, officials also have charged Francisco Ja vier Rodriquez Martinez, 26, and 21-year-old Anibal Hernandez with murder. All four were living in Covington at the time of the beating.
If convicted, each could face 15 years to life in prison.
The case became Cincinnati's 13th homicide of 1999. It was the first homicide in Corryville since 1997.
Mr. Gonzales had come to Cincinnati in 1998. He worked as a skilled plasterer at Synthetic Stucco Corp. and lived in Forest Park.
Mr. Gonzales' friends raised money to send his body back to his parents in Ecuador so he could be buried in his hometown.
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