{"id":164093,"date":"2012-02-13T13:55:06","date_gmt":"2012-02-13T19:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=164093"},"modified":"2012-02-14T13:16:51","modified_gmt":"2012-02-14T19:16:51","slug":"lufkin-man-charged-with-capital-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=164093","title":{"rendered":"Four Arrested on Capital Murder Charges, One at Large"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>LUFKIN \u2014 As Darnell Bennett, 26, was laid to rest Monday, local authorities hunted the last of five men believed responsible for his murder. That\u2019s according to KETK and the Lufkin Daily News. Rafael Orta, 20, remained at large Monday afternoon while his alleged co-conspirators, Jacob Woodard, 20 (pictured); Osalvado Hernandez-Escamilla, 18; Geraldo Renteria, 18; Jesus Vela, 17, all of Lufkin, were being held in the Angelina County Jail, charged with capital murder. <\/p>\n

According to Lufkin Police Det. Cpl. Travis Strickland, Bennett\u2019s shooting death was the result of a robbery pact gone wrong. Around 10:00pm on February 7, the five men reportedly drove to the home Bennett shared with his girlfriend Britney Nerren and her young son at 1408 California Blvd., intending to rob him. Strickland said the men were only acquainted with Bennett as someone who sold marijuana and had no prior issues with him. \u201cThey, all five together, decided to go rob my victim,\u201d Strickland said. \u201cNo retaliation, no problems, no beef between them. It was a straight robbery.\u201d<\/p>\n

Just before the group showed up at Bennett\u2019s back door, he received a phone call, Strickland said. Nerren, who was upstairs with her son at the time of the murder, reportedly heard Bennett asking \u201cDid you call me from a private number?\u201d and then gunshots. \u201cShe said she could tell that he was familiar with them and was upset,\u201d Strickland said. \u201cTwo of them had guns, but we\u2019ve identified Mr. Woodard as the shooter.\u201d Bennett was taken to Memorial Medical Center-Lufkin with a gunshot wound to the chest. He was pronounced dead just after 10:20 that night.<\/p>\n

Woodard was arrested Saturday with the help of the Angelina County Sheriff\u2019s Office, while the additional arrests were made Monday, two of those with the help of the Lufkin ISD Police Department, as Renteria and Vela are high school students, Strickland said. Although Bennett may have been targeted because of drug connections, Strickland said it doesn\u2019t lessen the need for justice in the case. \u201cI worked narcotics for a long time and had never seen Mr. Bennett\u2019s name before,\u201d he said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t matter what someone has done in the past, no one deserves to die.\u201d The four men arrested remained in jail Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

LUFKIN \u2014 As Darnell Bennett, 26, was laid to rest Monday, local authorities hunted the last of five men believed responsible for his murder. That\u2019s according to KETK and the Lufkin Daily News. Rafael Orta, 20, remained at large Monday afternoon while his alleged co-conspirators, Jacob Woodard, 20 (pictured); Osalvado Hernandez-Escamilla, 18; Geraldo Renteria, 18; … Continue reading Four Arrested on Capital Murder Charges, One at Large<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-164093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-01 02:42:21","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=164093"}],"version-history":[{"count":23,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":164492,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164093\/revisions\/164492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=164093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=164093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=164093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}