POLICE ARREST SUSPECT IN PILGRIMAGE MURDERS

ALCALDE, New Mexico (CWNews.com) - New Mexican police on Sunday arrested a suspect in the shooting death of two teens making a pilgrimage to the shrine of Santuario de Chimayo.

State police arrested Carlos Herrera, 19, at a friend's home early Easter morning, said spokesman Sgt. Royleen Ross-Weaver. She said Herrera was an acquaintance of the two 17-year-old victims, Richard Martinez and Karen Castanon. The two high-school students were among thousands of people making the annual pilgrimage to Chimayo, where the small shrine is said to contain miraculous healing dirt. Their bodies were found Friday, but few other details were available.

"We received bits and pieces from different people, put it together and started pursuing the information," Ross-Weaver said. "We were able to develop the suspect and we also have physical evidence linking him to the crime." She wouldn't comment on a motive.

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