Pair arrested near U.S.-Mexico border in connection with fatal Red Bird shooting

Two people who are accused of being involved in the fatal shooting earlier this month of a 24-year-old man in the Red Bird area of Dallas were arrested near the U.S.-Mexico border, police said.

On Sunday, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents arrested Christopher Torres and Victoria Vargas Zuniga, both of whom are 20 years old, at a checkpoint search in Imperial County in California, which is located at the Mexico border. Both are facing a murder charge in connection with the shooting, police said in a Monday news release.

Shortly after 11 p.m. April 8, officers responded to a shooting in the 8800 block of South Polk Street, just south of Interstate 20, police have said. Officers found a man who had been shot at the location. The man, identified by police as Andy Rangel, later died at a hospital.

Police had said an unknown suspect, described as a man in his mid-20s, had left the area in a Buick Rendezvous driven by a female driver. Authorities had released a sketch of the suspect and video of the suspect vehicle.

Torres and Zuniga were at the Imperial County jail Monday afternoon and are awaiting extradition, police said.