One suspect arrested, one still at large in shooting deaths of four at 10th and Central

Hugo Villanueva-Morales
Javier A. Alatorre

One of the suspects in the mass shooting that killed four persons at 10th and Central Avenue has been taken into custody, according to Kansas City, Kansas, police.

Police stated that the two suspects, Hugo Villanueva-Morales, 29, and Javier A. Alatorre, 23, were charged with four counts of first-degree murder. Bond was set at $1 million each.

Alatorre was arrested late Sunday afternoon near the 2600 block of Quincy in Kansas City, Missouri, with the assistance of the Kansas City, Missouri, police, FBI and ATF, according to a Kansas City, Kansas, police spokesman.

Villanueva-Morales is still at large, police stated, and should be considered armed and dangerous. Anyone who sees him or knows of his whereabouts should call 911 or the TIPS hotline at 816-474-TIPS. Residents should not approach him, police said.

According to conviction records from the Kansas Department of Corrections, Villanueva-Morales was released from state custody on Jan. 19, 2018. He was serving a sentence for three counts of attempted aggravated robbery from an incident Nov. 6, 2011, in Wyandotte County. He also had been convicted of aggravated burglary in Johnson County from an incident on Sept. 30, 2007. According to the most recent KDOC records, he has brown eyes, black hair, is 5-11 and weighs 192 pounds.

Alatorre was convicted of fleeing or attempting to elude a law enforcement officer from an incident on March 14, 2018, in Wyandotte County, according to KDOC records. He was paroled in August 2019 and KDOC records list that his physical location was moved to Missouri Sept. 9, 2019.