{"id":408708,"date":"2026-07-23T00:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T00:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/408708\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T00:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T00:08:08","slug":"arrest-made-in-suspected-murder-of-15-year-old-in-el-monte-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/408708\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest made in suspected murder of 15-year-old in El Monte \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man has been charged with murder in connection with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/investigation-underway-after-minor-fatally-stabbed-in-el-monte\/3916018\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stabbing death of a teenage boy<\/a> in El Monte, police said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators with the Los Angeles County Sheriff&#8217;s Department (LASD) identified Jonathan Castelan, 18, of South El Monte as the suspect in the fatal stabbing of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/el-monte-stabbing-teen-boy-identified\/3916442\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">15-year-old Aziel Zacapala<\/a> that happened in the 9700 block of Fern Street at around 1 p.m. on July 10, according to the El Monte Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>Aziel \u2014 whose family members say was a promising student and athlete at Rosemead High School \u2014 was taken to the hospital, where he died. The LASD said a 16-year-old boy and a young man were also hospitalized after the stabbing.<\/p>\n<p>Details about what led up to the stabbing were not immediately known.<\/p>\n<p>Castelan was taken into custody on Monday, officials said. The case was then presented Wednesday to the Los Angeles County District Attorney&#8217;s Office, which charged him with three counts: murder, attempted murder and assault with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the incident is asked to contact the LASD&#8217;s Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500 or Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been charged with murder in connection with the stabbing death of a teenage boy in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396346,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[25099,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-408708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-el-monte","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408708","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=408708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}