KELSEYVILLE, Calif. – On Wednesday Lake County Sheriff's detectives apprehended a man wanted in Nevada in connection to a January home invasion and homicide.
Jared Matthias Wagner, 23, was arrested at the home of his parents in Kelseyville, according to Lt. Steve Brooks.
Detectives from the Lake County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit assisted detectives from the Sparks Police Department with locating and arresting Wagner, Brooks said.
Wagner was taken into custody without incident, Brooks said.
He's charged in Nevada with murder with use of a deadly weapon, battery with the use of a deadly weapon resulting in substantial bodily harm, burglary and attempted robbery with the use of a deadly weapon, Brooks said.
Brooks said Wagner will remain in the Lake County Jail on a no-bail warrant until he can be extradited back to Nevada.
Wagner is one of three suspects who police have sought for the January home invasion that resulted in the death of one of the victims.
According to a report from the Sparks Police Department, on Jan. 22 officers responded to a report of a home invasion.
Officers arrived at the scene and found two men – 68-year-old Robert McDonald and his roommate 51-year-old Keith Moore – with extensive injuries after they were attacked and severely beaten. Police said one of the victims told officers that someone broke in and beat them up.
Five days later, McDonald was taken off life support and died of his injuries, police said.
Moore, meanwhile, continues to recover from numerous serious injuries, according to police.
The Sparks Police investigation led to the identification of three suspects: Wagner, along with 24-year-old Cody Michael Cains and 23-year-old Conor David Samuels. The agency subsequently obtained arrest warrants for all three.
On Wednesday Cains and Samuels also were arrested and booked into the Washoe County, Nev., jail, according to jail records. Both Cains and Samuels are being held without bail.
Anyone with information on this case is asked to contact the Lake County Sheriff’s Office Major Crimes Unit at 707-262-4200 or the Sparks Police Department Detective Division at 775-353-2225.
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