Arrest Made In Connection With 2016 Greenlawn Park Killing: SCPD

Huntington NY

22 October, 2020

10:40 AM

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GREENLAWN, NY — A Maryland man was arrested Wednesday in connection with the killing of an 18-year-old man in Greenlawn more than four years ago, Suffolk police said. Carlos A. Lopez-Campos, 26, killed Estiven Abrego Gomez, 18, of Greenlawn, on Aug. 20, 2016, and left his body in Greenlawn Park, police said. Lopez-Campos was taken into custody in his hometown of Owings Mills, Maryland, on Monday by Suffolk County police Homicide Squad detectives, police said. Lopez-Campos was brought to New York on Wednesday and charged with second-degree murder. He was held overnight and is scheduled to be arraigned at First District Court in Central Islip on Thursday. In 2016, a man was walking through Greenlawn Park when he found Gomez's body with significant cuts, police said. In arresting Lopez-Campos, Suffolk police had help from the United States Marshals Service, Homeland Security and U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from the New York and Maryland offices.