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Prosecutor links 1991 murder to suspect killed by FBI in 2007 – The Mercury News

SAN JOSE – Authorities say they have solved the fatal 1991 murder of a teenager after discovering that the teen suspect, who fled the state after the killing, was living in Ohio under a different name.

Pictured are two photos that authorities say show Gerardo Aguilar, who was 15 when he was identified as a suspect in the fatal shooting of a 14-year-old boy in San Jose in 1991. On the left is a booking photo of Aguilar after an arrest in the mid-2000s in Ohio when he was living under a different last name, and on the right is a photo of Aguilar from the time of the San Jose shooting. (Photo courtesy of Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office)

But when investigators from the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office reopened the investigation earlier this year, shooting suspect Gerardo Aguilar was long dead. He was reportedly killed in a 2007 shootout with FBI agents who were investigating him for alleged drug trafficking in the Cincinnati area.

Aguilar is officially registered as the person who, as a 15-year-old, shot and killed 14-year-old Raymond Ojeda, a high school freshman, during a gang-related altercation on the Foxdale Loop near the East Capitol Expressway and Story Road on September 28, 1991.

San Jose police had obtained an arrest warrant for Aguilar during the initial investigation 33 years ago, but he could not be traced and had presumably left the Bay Area.

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