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Arcadia Weekly Jun 21, 2012
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A 17-year-old boy has been arrested in the shooting death of a man Saturday in an unincorporated county area surrounded by El Monte, Arcadia and Temple City, authorities said Monday.
The teen was arrested at 5 a.m. Sunday morning.
The shooting was reported just after 11:30 a.m. in the 5200 block of Tyler Avenue on the sidewalk in front of a liquor store.Thee victim was identified Monday by the county coroner’s office as 24-year-old Joseph Frank Romero.
The incident was the second deadly shooting in the area since Thursday, when a 34-year-old man killed two miles south of this incident.
