{"id":401770,"date":"2026-07-17T03:59:32","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/401770\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T03:59:32","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T03:59:32","slug":"man-arrested-in-california-in-connection-with-west-point-homicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/401770\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in California in connection with West Point homicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEST POINT, Utah (KUTV) \u2014 A second suspect was arrested in connection with the homicide of  <a href=\"https:\/\/kutv.com\/news\/local\/identity-released-of-71-year-old-man-found-dead-on-front-porch-in-west-point-shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">71-year-old James Witten<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Abner Aroldo Avila, 21, was arrested in California and is being held pending extradition to Utah.<\/p>\n<p>Axel Eduardo Chavez Marroquin, 23, was <a href=\"https:\/\/kutv.com\/news\/local\/suspect-in-west-point-homicide-taken-into-custody-by-police-in-las-vegas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">arrested on June 16<\/a> in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n<p>Witten was taking out the trash at his home near 2000 West and 200 North just before 6:30 p.m. on Saturday, May 30, when he was shot and killed. Davis County deputies found his body on the porch.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects then fled the scene and remained unidentified for several weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Little information has been released, but Avila and Marroquin are both facing charges.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>_____<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WEST POINT, Utah (KUTV) \u2014 A second suspect was arrested in connection with the homicide of 71-year-old James&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":401771,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-401770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=401770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/401770\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/401771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=401770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=401770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=401770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}