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Cornejo Charged For "Inches" Murder
posted (December 11, 2012)
Last week Friday, we told you about 29 year-old Marvin "Inches" Nunez, who was executed near the entrance of Saint Ignatius Primary School on Euphrates Avenue. Well, tonight 20 year-old Henry Cornejo is on remand for his murder after he was taken to court today.

He was arraigned today before Senior Magistrate Sharon Frazer this morning. There's no bail for murder, so he was remanded to prison until January of 2013.

Cornejo was allegedly lying in wait for Nunez who went with his girlfriend to drop off his stepchildren at Saint Ignatius at around 1 p.m., just like he normally does.

As soon as his girlfriend went inside the compound, the gunman ambushed Nunez and shot him 3 times in the head and once in the chest.

And if Cornejo's name or face seems familiar to you, it should. He was acquitted on June 28 of this year of the May 2009 murder of 30 year-old Gilbert Olivera Hamilton. That case ended when the main witness refused to show up and testify for the prosecution.

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