2013 Clarksville homicide suspect appears in court Wednesday

CLARKSVILLE, Ind. (WAVE) – Twelve years after a brutal double-homicide in Clarksville, the man suspected of the crime appeared in court to answer to his crimes.

Carlos Alberto Bonilla-Canenguez was in custody last month in an ICE facility in Georgia, due to be deported to El Salvador. Clarksville police said that is when a records check flagged Bonilla-Canenguez in the 2013 case.

“So eventually, immigration customs enforcement got a hold us and told us what was going on,” Corporal Justice Kraft, a Clarksville police spokesman, said. “We had a detective go down there and take a DNA sample from Mr. Bonilla. And that was ultimately sent off to our lab, where it was a match.”…

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