A 14-year-old California boy killed 33 years ago was murdered by a man who was gunned down by the FBI in 2007 while living under a different name in Ohio, authorities revealed on Tuesday.
The teenager, Raymond Ojeda, was shot to death in the Foxdale Loop area of San Jose on Sept. 28, 1991, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.
His killer, Gerardo Aguilar, who was 15 years old at the time, was identified by police and a juvenile warrant was issued for his arrest but he “disappeared” before he could be apprehended, officials said.
Earlier this year, the DA’s Cold Case Unit identified a man living in Ohio under the name Gerardo Mulato, a dead man, as a possible match for Aguilar.
SCCDAO investigator John Cary, going off a “hunch,” did a background search and found that Aguilar’s sister’s last name was Mulato.
He found photographs of a man “who looked a lot like the suspect” and went by the name “Gerardo Mulato,” in Forest Park, outside of Cincinnati.
“DNA analysis confirmed they were the same person. Aguilar had been living in Ohio under the (last) name Mulato for several years,” the DA’s office wrote.
Aguilar’s criminal activity continued once he fled California.
He was arrested under the name Mulato in 2004 for assault with a baseball bat in Springfield, Ohio, officials said.
In 2007, the FBI began investigating Aguilar for drug trafficking crimes.
Aguilar saw the FBI installing a tracking device on his car and, believing they were car thieves, pulled a gun.
An agent fatally shot him. Aguilar was 33-years-old.
“It’s never too late to identify a killer,” District Attorney Jeff Rosen said in a statement.
“People may forget. But victims’ families and my office do not.”
