(KRON) — Investigators said they recently cracked a 33-year-old cold case and figured out what happened to a 14-year-old San Jose boy’s killer.
On September 28, 1991, 14-year-old Raymond Ojeda was shot to death during a gang-related confrontation in the Foxdale Loop area of San Jose, investigators said. The killer, Gerardo Aguilar, “disappeared” before police officers could arrest him, according to the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office.
At the time of the murder, Aguilar was 15 years old. “A juvenile arrest warrant was issued for Aguilar, but local authorities were not able to locate him. The suspect disappeared,” SCCDAO wrote.
Earlier this year, a cold case investigator with SCCDAO, John Cary, decided to follow a “hunch” and follow up on a dead man in Ohio. The man had been killed in 2007 during a shootout with FBI agents in Ohio.
Cary did a background search and discovered that the San Jose murder suspect’s sister’s last name was Mulato. He found photographs of a man “who looked a lot like the suspect,” went by the name “Gerardo Mulato,” and resided in Forest Park, Ohio before his death.