Murder charge filed after police trace burning body in Oakland hills to Richmond shooting

RICHMOND — A 42-year-old man has been arrested and charged with murder in connection with a June shooting where the victim’s body was moved to Oakland and set on fire, authorities said.

Jose Vazquez-Cano was charged with killing 25-year-old Bryan Barrios-Marroquin in a June 3 shooting in Richmond. Barrios-Marroquin’s body was found later that day inside a burning pickup truck parked on the 9500 block of Mountain Boulevard in the Oakland hills, police said.

The crime was initially investigated as a suspicious death until an autopsy revealed Barrios-Marroquin died from a gunshot wound. Then police received a tip that the homicide occurred in Richmond, which led them to identifying Vazquez-Cano as a suspect.

Authorities say that the two men knew each other and that Barrios-Marroquin was the intended target of the shooting.

In addition to the murder charge, Vazquez-Cano is accused of mutilating a corpse and being a felon in possession of a firearm. He remains in the Contra Costa County jail system. At his first court date Wednesday, his arraignment was postponed until July 26, court records show.