Holyoke man arraigned on charge of killing Agawam man
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Published: 12/14/2020 7:53:18 PM
HOLYOKE Police on Friday arrested a city man who has been charged with killing Robert James, a 52-year-old Agawam resident, in October.
Police arrested Felix Torres-Rodriguez, 28, after a detective assigned to a road construction detail reportedly saw him near Spring Street. Torres-Rodriguez was wanted in connection with the fatal shooting of James, whom police found with a gunshot wound on Oct. 30 after he was involved in a car crash on Main and Spring streets.
“The detective contacted other officers who responded to the area and arrested Torres-Rodriguez a short time later,” Hampden District Attorney’s Office spokesman James Leydon said in a statement.
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Holyoke Police arrest man wanted in homicide after detective spots him while directing traffic
Updated Dec 13, 2020;
Posted Dec 13, 2020
Felix Torres-Rodriguez, 28, of Holyoke, was arrested on Friday on a warrant charging him with the death of Robert James, 52. (Hampden District Attorney photo)
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HOLYOKE – Police have arrested a suspect in a six-week-old homicide, after an officer directing traffic at a road construction project spotted the wanted man.
Felix Torres-Rodriguez, 28, of Holyoke, was arrested Friday on a warrant charging him with murder in the death of Robert James, 52, of Agawam, said James Leydon, spokesman for Hampden District Attorney Anthony Gulluni.
Torres-Rodriguez was apprehended on Spring Street, near the same location where the Oct. 30 homicide occurred, Leydon said.
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