01-03) 16:36 PST SAN JOSE -- A San Jose maintenance worker who shot and killed an alleged repeat burglar while intending to make a citizen's arrest was charged with murder Thursday, authorities said.Luis Ricardo Hernandez, 26, is accused of murdering 36-year-old Christopher Soriano at the apartment complex on Lewis Road where Hernandez works.
The incident started when Hernandez got a call Monday morning from his boss, Salvador Orozco Saldana, who had spotted Soriano driving a truck into the apartment complex's garage, according to a police statement included in Santa Clara County court documents released Thursday.
Saldana, a maintenance supervisor at the complex, believed Soriano had burglarized his and other apartments in the past, documents said. He didn't think police had responded promptly to the burglaries and had no confidence officers would show up this time, so he told Hernandez to help him make a citizen's arrest, police said.
Hernandez armed himself with a gun he told police he had bought illegally for self-defense, investigators said. When he and his boss tried to hold Soriano, however, the suspected burglar broke free and Hernandez shot him, police said.
An autopsy indicated that Soriano was shot from less than a foot away and was either lying on the ground or crouching when he was hit, according to the Santa Clara County medical examiner's office.
Surveillance footage from the garage shows Hernandez fighting with the suspect while holding a gun, according to police.
Soriano died at the scene at 9:55 a.m., authorities said. Saldana has not been charged with a crime.
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