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Victim, suspects ID’d in Pateros homicide investigation

From staff reports
Officials have identified the man killed in a fight turned deadly near Pateros over the weekend as 28-year-old Jose L. Galeana-Palacios. Four men have been booked into Okanogan County Jail facing second-degree murder charges in Galeana-Palacios’s death. They are Jose D. Jimenez-Hernandez, 42; Oscar Perez-Torres, 37; Ramon Arrellano-Lopez, 45; all of Pateros, and Jaime M. Salazar-Gomez, 38, of Orondo. Investigators say the five men were “partying” near a pond at 270 Watson Draw Road when a fight broke out. Galeana-Palacios was killed, and the four men allegedly took his body to a boat launch on the Columbia River south of town, where authorities found it on Sunday morning, according to a news release from Okanogan County Sheriff Frank Rogers. Rogers said the homicide does not appear to be gang- or drug-related at this time. The four suspects were arrested early Monday. An autopsy has been ordered to determine the cause of death, Rogers said. The suspects are, from left to right, Arrellano-Lopez, Perez-Torres, Jimenez-Hernandez and Salazar-Gomez