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Second arrest in Lincoln grocery store murder case | KLIN


Second arrest in Lincoln grocery store murder case | KLIN

Lincoln police have made a second arrest in connection with a fatal shooting in the parking lot of Russ’s Market at the corner of South Coddington and West ‘A’ Streets last month. The LPD SWAT team served a search warrant at the home of 20-year-old Kaeylab Gonzales on Wednesday morning and took him into custody.

He was charged with first-degree murder, use of a weapon to commit a crime, possession of a firearm by an unlawful person and unlawful discharge of a firearm. Police have not said what role Gonzales played in the killing.

Investigators say 25-year-old Francisco Alvis was shot and killed around 10 p.m. on July 5. Captain Ben Miller says the investigation determined Alvis had been meeting with 20-year-old Ge’Auvieon Crayton of Lincoln to sell marijuana.

He says they interviewed witnesses and reviewed surveillance video from the crime scene. This video shows Alvis meeting Crayton in the parking lot, where the two are sitting in his white pickup truck.

Miller says Alvis was then shot multiple times in his vehicle.

“Alvis ran to a maroon Jeep that had arrived in the parking lot and held onto the driver’s door as it drove away. He let go near the intersection of West ‘A’ and S. Folsom, where witnesses found him.” Alvis was pronounced dead at the hospital.

“He was found with a fully loaded 9mm pistol that was on safety and had no live ammunition in the barrel,” Miller says. “Crayton exited Alvis’ vehicle and drove away in a silver Jeep, the same vehicle he arrived in.”

Crayton was charged with first-degree murder and weapons offenses.

(Photo by Kaeylab Gonzales courtesy of Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office)

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