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Man already behind bars in Ventura County now facing a new charge: Murder

Tim Hufner
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Unsplash

Oxnard police arrest man for July killing in the city. There's no word on a possible motive.

There’s been an arrest for a murder which occurred over the summer in Ventura County.

On July 12th, Oscar Rodriguez was found in the middle of the night on an Oxnard street with multiple gunshot wounds. He later died at a hospital.

Oxnard Police detectives have been trying to identify a suspect in the killing of the 44-year-old Oxnard man ever since.

Their investigation led them to another Oxnard man, who was already in custody on unrelated charges. Detectives arrested Omar Romo at the Ventura County Jail Thursday afternoon on a murder charge. He’s now being held in lieu of $2 million bail.

Lance Orozco has been News Director of KCLU since 2001, providing award-winning coverage of some of the biggest news events in the region, including the Thomas and Woolsey brush fires, the deadly Montecito debris flow, the Borderline Bar and Grill attack, and Ronald Reagan's funeral.