Federal authorities arrested a Vallejo man on Wednesday in connection with a Memorial Day shooting that left two men dead and a third critically wounded, according to Vallejo police.
A team of U.S. Marshals apprehended 45-year-old Eddie Charles Sample on the 50 block of Cravath Street in San Francisco, after Vallejo detectives obtained a no-bail arrest warrant on May 30, police wrote in a statement. Vallejo police requested help locating Sample due to public safety concerns, according to local officials. Court records show that authorities sought to revoke Sample’s parole in another case the day before his arrest.
Sample is suspected of killing 44-year-old Billy Hinkle and 59-year-old Craig Cousins at an encampment on the White Slough, near Sonoma Boulevard and Highway 37. Officers found Hinkle and Cousins mortally wounded inside the camp. First responders rushed an unidentified third shooting victim to a local hospital with a life-threatening injury…