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GUATEMALA CITY (AP) -- Guatemalan police on Monday arrested a second person in the bus robbery slaying of an American tourist earlier this month.
Henry Geovanny Vicente Gabriel, 27, was arrested in a police raid at his home in the town of Nuevo San Carlos, the national police force said in a statement. The arrest of another suspect had been announced last week.
Brett Richards, a 52-year-old architect from Ogden, was shot in the chest and died on the way to a hospital Jan. 7 after men boarded the bus he was on and opened fire with automatic weapons. Richards was traveling with several other members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, or Mormons from Quetzaltenango to the Mexican border.
The robbers led the other passengers into a forest and forced them to lie face down before stealing their belongings.
The attack took place in Colomba, 120 miles west of Guatemala City. It was the first reported murder of a U.S. citizen in Guatemala since July 2002. Nuevo San Carlos, the second suspect's hometown, is located about 20 miles from Colomba.
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