3rd Suspect in Maryland Man’s Slaying Arrested in Georgia

SILVER SPRING, Md. – Authorities in Maryland say another teen has been arrested in the gang-related slaying of a man found dead last year.

News outlets report 18-year-old Francisco Sosa was arrested Tuesday in Gwinnett County, Georgia, and is awaiting extradition to Maryland. Prince George’s County police say Sosa was arrested on charges including first-degree murder in the death of 19-year-old Herson Mejia-Alvarez.

Mejia-Alvarez’s body was found in a wooded area in May by county police working on an unrelated case. His cause of death was ruled to be blunt force trauma.

Lenin and Bryan Mancias-Callejas were 16 years old when they were arrested in the case in June and charged as adults with murder. Police say Sosa and the Mancias-Callejas brothers are members of a gang.

It’s unclear if Sosa has a lawyer.