Overview
- Police and prosecutors announced Monday that 32-year-old Jose Jimenez was arrested and charged with murder in the 2014 stabbing of Labh Nigah at Sierra Linda Park.
- Detectives said FBI-assisted genetic genealogy pointed to Jimenez after crime-scene DNA matched distant relatives, a method that builds family trees to find likely suspects.
- Officials said careful storage of DNA collected in 2014 let labs run newer tests years later, making the genealogy search possible.
- Prosecutors filed special allegations for using a knife, acting in a cruel and callous way, and attacking a defenseless victim, which could increase any potential sentence.
- Jimenez is being held on $500,000 bail with an arraignment set for Monday afternoon, and prosecutors said they will ask the judge to order no bail.