Riverside County sheriff’s cold case investigators re-examining the unsolved 2007 slaying of a teenager in Moreno Valley returned to the man initially suspected of the crime to make an arrest.
Vincent Edward Gonzales III was initially taken into custody 10 days after 15-year-old Clyvaughn Mallet was found mortally wounded in a dirt field close to Sunnymead Boulevard and Frederick Street on May 5, 2007. A relative said at the time that Clyvaughn had just left a movie theater and was walking to a store with a friend when he was shot.
But the District Attorney’s Office did not charge Gonzales.
Now, the Sheriff’s Department said in a news release that investigators uncovered “new evidence” that it declined to describe and arrested Lake Elsinore resident Gonzales, 37, on Friday, March 28, on suspicion of murder.
He is being held at Robert Presley Detention Center in Riverside in lieu of $1 million bail.
Gonzales had not been charged as of Wednesday.
The Sheriff’s Department asked anyone with information on the case to call Investigator Dan Brown at 951-955-2777.
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