Olds RCMP, with help from Mounties from Didsbury, arrested a Calgary man on May 16 now charged with murdering a woman and child found dead in a Calgary home earlier in the day.
Guevara Wilson Clorina, 26, was taken into custody at about 3:30 p.m. when local police tracked down the Acura sedan he was driving on Rge. Rd. 15 just north of that road's intersection with Twp. Rd. 320 in Mountain View County west of the Olds-Didsbury Airport.
Police had received information that a suspicious vehicle associated with the home where the bodies of Chona Manzano, 35, and her five-year-old son Gabriel Manzano were found had left the scene of the murders and police circulated details of the vehicle to nearby policing agencies.
Police had discovered Manzano and her son in “serious medical distress” at roughly 12:50 p.m. at a home in the 200 block of Evanspark Circle NW in Calgary after a neighbour called 911, a Calgary Police spokesman said.
They were pronounced dead at the scene.
Police believe the suspect is related to the deceased woman and boy, but he is not an immediate family member and did not reside in the same home.
The father of the boy and other children linked to the home where the murders took place were found safe, police said on May 16.
Acting Cpl. S.D. Bereza, a spokesman for the Olds RCMP, said police in Calgary located the suspect vehicle on Rge. Rd. 15 by “pinging” the suspect's cellphone to locate the nearest cellphone tower.
Calgary police then sent information to Olds and Didsbury RCMP advising them that the Acura was in an area south of Olds.
Bereza said Didsbury and Olds RCMP came across the car in a ditch on Rge. Rd. 15 and set up spike belts on the roadway north and south of the vehicle's location in case the driver tried to flee.
Although police executed a “high-risk” takedown of the suspect, he added, the man surrendered peacefully.
Because police did not know if there were other people in the vehicle who may have fled the scene on foot, a police canine unit was brought in to search the area as a “preventative measure,” Bereza said.
A Calgary police helicopter was also used to find and apprehend the suspect.
Emergency medical personnel did attend to the suspect when he was taken into custody at the scene to assess his condition since he had blood on his clothes, but Bereza said that no injuries resulted from the arrest. Clorina was charged with two counts of second-degree murder on May 17 and his next court appearance was scheduled for May 21.
