Oquendo was indicted by a Hampden Superior Court grand jury for the murder.
Updates a story posted at 5:10 a.m.
SPRINGFIELD — A third suspect in the fatal shooting and stabbing of a 34-year-old man during a home invasion of a Mill Street apartment in December 2010 was arrested on a warrant Tuesday morning.
Joshua Oquendo, 27, of 52 Edendale St., Apt. 2, was indicted by a Hampden Superior Court grand jury on July 15 for the murder of Ramon Leonardo-Cruz.
Police arrested Oquendo at about 10 a.m. Tuesday at 10 Littleton St. in the Hungry Hill section of the city, according to Springfield Police Department records.
Oquendo was also indicted for three counts of home invasion (Leonardo-Cruz, his mother and his girlfriend were in the apartment) and unlawful possession of a firearm.
Oquendo was arraigned Tuesday in Hampden Superior Court, and a pre-trial hearing was set for Nov. 13. He is being held without bail.
Court documents state witnesses told police that three masked males entered the 3rd floor apartment at 265 Mill St. on the night of Dec. 14, 2010, demanded money from Leonardo-Cruz, shot and stabbed him and then fled in a car.
Juan BermudezLeonardo-Cruz was pronounced dead at Baystate Medical Center. A short time later, police arrested Juan Bermudez, then 18, at his 24 Allen St. residence, and charged him with murder.
A murder trial for Bermudez, indicted and arraigned in Hampden Superior Court in March 2011, is slated to begin in September.
A second suspect, Demetrius Sanchez, 19, pleaded guilty last December in Hampden Superior Court to voluntary manslaughter – reduced from a murder charge – and was sentenced to 18 to 20 years in state prison followed by three years probation, according to a report published by The Republican and MassLive.com.
Sanchez was just 16 when he pulled the trigger of a .38 caliber revolver and shot Leonardo-Cruz, according to the report. Court documents state that Leonardo-Cruz died from trauma caused by both the stabbing and gunshot wounds.