Sacramento man arrested in killing of 2 adults, 2 juveniles

Sacramento police declined to discuss the suspect’s relationship with the victims and said they haven’t determined a motive.

“It’s a horrible thing,” Munoz said.

Police originally detained Salvador Vasquez-Oliva in San Francisco about 90 miles (145 kilometres) away on Thursday afternoon and formally arrested him Friday morning.

He was being held in the Sacramento County Jail, police spokesman Sgt. Bryce Heinlein said.

The four victims were discovered Thursday morning when police broke into the home after a relative reported that something might be wrong.

Vasquez-Oliva was quickly singled out by investigators on Thursday. Police said he is from Sacramento, but records show he is also is associated with an apartment near the University of San Francisco, six blocks from where police found him. The building is in a nice neighbourhood, but is worn and run down. There was no answer at the door, though a light remained on inside.

The California Employment Development Department, which administers the state’s unemployment checks, said it has employed Vasquez-Oliva as an office technician since 2014.

The single-story beige home with sculpted shrubbery where the bodies were found has a basketball hoop in a driveway that police blocked with yellow crime scene tape. It’s located in a tree-lined residential neighbourhood of neatly maintained homes near a church.

Police have not said when or how the victims were killed.

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Associated Press writers Kristin J. Bender and Amanda Lee Myers also contributed to this report. Elias and Bender contributed from San Francisco, and Myers contributed from Los Angeles.

Don Thompson And Paul Elias, The Associated Press

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Sacramento man arrested in killing of 2 adults, 2 juveniles

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