San Diego, CA
Police: Man arrested in St. Cloud after fatally shooting 18-year-old sailor in San Diego
The investigators identified Benness as the shooter and the others as well “through a combination of public and private security footage, license plate readers, witness interviews, and tireless investigative work,” a statement from San Diego police read.
About 10:30 a.m. on Wednesday, St. Cloud police found Benness and arrested him while he was a passenger in a vehicle at the intersection of 10th Avenue N. and 2nd Street N.
Atoria Elem told Channel 10-TV in San Diego that Soto was her cousin and was an Operations Specialist Seaman Apprentice assigned to the destroyer USS Pinckney.
“He had the option to basically go to college, join training school. However, he was very adamant about joining the Navy to serve his country,” Elem added.
In a posting on an online fund-raising page, Elem initiated on behalf of the family, she wrote, “Albert was training in the Navy in California, away from his hometown. A casual night out resulted in him losing his life to gun violence.”