California homicide suspects nabbed

Yuma Border Patrol makes arrests while conducting routine check

Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents from the Wellton Station arrested three men on Saturday at the Interstate 8 immigration checkpoint who were being sought as suspects in connection to a double shooting in California that left two people dead.

According to information provided by U.S. Customs and Border Protection, agents referred a rented 2019 Dodge Charger to the secondary inspection area after a National Crime Information Center (NCIC) alert of “armed and dangerous,” in regard to the vehicle.

While agents were conducting a routine check on the vehicle and its occupants, they learned all three men were wanted for a double-homicide investigation out of Montclair,

California.

During the course of the investigation, agents also located about 6 pounds of marijuana that has an estimated street value of $2,100.

Agents initiated extradition of the three suspects and seized the marijuana.

Detective Joshua Garabedian, of the Montclair Police Department, said charges have been filed against all three men and they are currently in custody at the West Valley Detention Center in Rancho Cucamonga, California.

The men have been identified as Terrence Pirtle, 20, Troy Agnew, 20, and Jordan Patrick, 20, all from Tennessee.

Garabedian said at approximately 1:02 p.m. Saturday, officers were dispatched to a shooting on Tudor Avenue in the city of Montclair.

Upon their arrival, they found one victim lying deceased next to his car. Minutes later, a second victim was found near the scene with a gunshot to his upper torso.

He was immediately transported to a hospital and is in stable condition.

A short time after the initial call in Montclair, the Chino Police Department received a call of a dead body being dropped off on a residential street in their city.

Montclair officers determined the body was related to its shooting, most likely one of the suspects.

After tentatively identifying the body, Garabedian said it was learned he had an active warrant out of Tennessee for his arrest for an unrelated attempted murder.

“He had previously shot at two people in Tennessee, so he was on the run,” Garabedian said.

The investigation into the shooting revealed the victims and suspects were possibly conducting an illegal drug transaction when shots rang out, killing one male on the scene and wounding another.

The suspects, who fled the scene in a black 2019 Dodge Charger, were seen dropping off the body of a deceased man and guns in Chino.