Man wanted for Detroit slayings nabbed near LA

[March 20, 2010]  DETROIT (AP) -- U.S. Marshals using information from Detroit police have arrested in California a man wanted in a double slaying reported by the 8-year-old daughter of one of the victims.

Detroit Police Chief Warren Evans says 42-year-old man Derrick Smith was arrested about Friday afternoon on a street in Gardena, Calif.

Smith was wanted on two counts of murder in the March 1 shooting deaths of 26-year-old Monica Botello and her 26-year-old boyfriend, Purcell Carson, in the basement of Carson's Detroit home.

Botello's daughter pleaded for help in a call to a 911 dispatcher, but the family was visiting the house and the girl didn't know the address and couldn't tell police how to get there. The girl eventually got the address from the front of the house.

[Associated Press]

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