2nd Gang Member Arrested In 4 New Mexico Slayings

A second reputed gang member was arrested Monday in the slayings of two adults who were shot and two little boys who were left to starve in a remote cabin.

Roy Buchner, 18, was arrested at his job.

Hours earlier, his alleged accomplice pleaded innocent to the slayings.

“I didn’t kill no one,” Shaun Wilkins said Monday before he was led out of Magistrate’s Court in leg irons and handcuffs.

Wilkins, 19, arrested Saturday, was arraigned on four counts of murder, one count of tampering with evidence and one count of conspiracy. He is being held on $1 million bail pending a May 21 hearing.

The bodies of Ben Anaya Jr., 17; Cassandra Sedillo, 23; and her two sons, Johnny Ray Garcia, 4, and Matthew Gene Garcia, 3, were found April 14 in the cabin near Torreon, N.M.

Police said their bodies might have been in the cabin since December.

Autopsies found that Anaya and Sedillo had died of gunshot wounds. Medical investigators said the children died of starvation and dehydration, likely within seven days of the two adults.

Darren White, secretary of the state Department of Public Safety, said investigators believe whoever shot Anaya and Sedillo knowingly left the boys to die.

Anaya, Wilkins and Buchner all reportedly were members of Albuquerque’s 18th Street gang.

Wilkins was paroled last year as authorities tried to ease overcrowding in the youth center where he was serving a two-year sentence for aggravated assault.