Suspect in Execution Slayings of 4 Arrested

The suspect in the execution-style slayings of four people at a home in Baldwin Park last September and listed as one of the FBI’s most wanted fugitives was arrested Tuesday in Tijuana, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said.

David Alex Alvarez, 29, had been seen in Mexico and Southern California several times since the attack, during which he and an accomplice methodically shot and stabbed to death three members of an extended family and a gardener who was working at the home, sheriff’s deputies said. Three other people were wounded during the attack.

Deputies say Alvarez was acting in retaliation against his estranged wife, Patricia Garcia, and her relatives, some of whom reportedly had beaten Alvarez after he abducted Garcia in August.

Two young sisters--Massiel Torres, 12, and Evelyn Torres, 8--their cousin, Robert Diaz, 34, and the gardener, Jose Rojas, 33, died in the Sept. 29 rampage. Garcia was not in the house at the time of the attack.

Alvarez’s alleged accomplice, Trinia Irene Aguirre, 21, of Los Angeles, was arrested last November. Deputies said Alvarez will be extradited within two weeks to Los Angeles County, where he faces four counts of murder.