COUSIN, WOMAN ARRESTED IN MAN'S KILLING.Byline: Jeannette DeSantis Daily News Staff Writer A 20-year-old farm worker was arrested Thursday on suspicion of murder in the weekend killing of a distant cousin in Sun Valley, a slaying investigators say was part of a bloody family land feud. The suspected gunman, Reynaldo Campos Campos (käm`p  s), city (1996 pop. 391,299), Rio de Janeiro state, SE Brazil, on the Paraíba River near its mouth. Acosta, was arrested while picking grapes in the rural California community of Delano, said Detective Mark Aragon of the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. Police Department's North Hollywood Division. Also arrested on suspicion of murder was Acosta's aunt, Maria Rodriguez, 33, of Delano. The two are being held at Van Nuys jail in lieu of $1 million bail each. Gerardo Campos Lizarraga, 36, was shot outside his home in the 10600 block of Valerio Street about 10:15 p.m. Saturday while his wife and 9-year-old nephew looked on. The killing was just one in a series of attacks stemming from the dispute within the family that has escalated in the past two years, Aragon said. Police believe Acosta killed Lizarraga in retaliation RETALIATION. The act by which a nation or individual treats another in the same manner that the latter has treated them. For example, if a nation should lay a very heavy tariff on American goods, the United States would be justified in return in laying heavy duties on the manufactures and for the slaying of Acosta's two uncles in Sinaloa, Mexico, in late 1995. ``The family feud This article is about the American game show. For other versions, see Family Feud around the world. For rivalries between families, see Feud. Family Feud was over land possession,'' Aragon said. ``Separate segments of the family were trying to absorb other family land. They basically were killing each other off to expand their empire.'' Lizarraga's nephew, who was grazed graze 1 v. grazed, graz·ing, graz·es v.intr. 1. To feed on growing grasses and herbage. 2. Informal a. To eat a variety of appetizers as a full meal. by gunfire during the attack, was taken to a local hospital where he was treated and released. Authorities searched Acosta's home Thursday, recovering an assault rifle assault rifle Military firearm that is chambered for ammunition of reduced size or propellant charge and has the capacity to switch between semiautomatic and fully automatic fire. and several hundred rounds of ammunition. Police said they found the suspected murder weapon in a ditch on the side of the grape field, where Acosta is believed to have tossed it after initially fleeing from authorities. |
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