WHITE CENTER, Wash. — A suspect in a Nov. 19, 2018 homicide in White Center was arrested by deputies with the King County Sheriff's Office on Friday.
Deputies previously identified 24-year-old Mical D. Roberts as the suspect in the shooting that killed 26-year-old Ricardo Villasenor.
Roberts was taken into custody just after 10 a.m. without incident and was booked into the King County Jail for investigation of murder, deputies said.
Deputies said they arrested Roberts with the assistance of the TAC-30 SWAT team.
On Nov. 19, King County 911 dispatchers said they got a call from a terrified woman hiding in a closet in the 10000 block of First Avenue Soutwest. She whispered someone had broken through the door.
Her boyfriend, Villasenor, locked the bedroom door and armed himself.
Police say 21 shots were fired back and forth, and Villasenor was killed.
#Update Today, 3/1/2019 just after 10 AM the King County Sheriff’s Office, with the assistance of the TAC-30 SWAT team, arrested Mical Roberts in Tacoma without incident. He was booked into the King County Jail for investigation of murder. https://t.co/N1LULUI83m
— King County Sheriff's Office PIO (@kingcosoPIO) March 1, 2019
Friends told police he was a hard-working man with no connection at all to the accused killer.
“He was a fisherman in Alaska, so he’d go and fish for six months and come back home for three months and then go back and forth,” King County Sheriff’s Office Sgt. Ryan Abbott said.
Prosecutors previously reported they believed the suspect was looking to steal cash but he went into the wrong home.
Detectives told KIRO 7 in January that Roberts left a trail of his own blood after he kicked his way into a home and started a wild shootout with a man who lived there, whom Roberts had never met before.
"He's extremely dangerous, and as far as we know, he's still armed, and he could do this (to) anybody else at any time, which is really, scary," Abbott previously said.
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