Antioch police have released the identity Friday of the man arrested in connection with a double homicide in the city last weekend.
John Henderson Walton Jr., 34, was arrested Sunday, Jan. 30 in connection with the Saturday, Jan. 29 night murders of Alexis Parson, 30, and Malik El-Ameen, 15.
Police said Walton was in a relationship with Parson, and El-Ameen was his biological son.
It took several days for the Contra Costa County Coroner's Office to positively identify the victims. Both died from blunt force trauma.
Walton is currently in police custody and is being held at the Martinez Detention Facility on a no-bail warrant for murder.
Additional information learned through the investigation has revealed that Walton had a non-extraditable warrant for his arrest for a domestic violence-related incident in Georgia.
Antioch police received a request for a welfare check Saturday evening in the 2100 block of Lemontree Way. A concerned citizen had not seen or heard from their neighbor in several days and was concerned.
At approximately 8:21 p.m., officers arrived at the scene and looked through a window of the residence, an apartment. They were able to see El-Ameen unresponsive on the floor. The officers entered the apartment and determined that he was deceased. A further search upstairs located Parson's body in a bedroom.
Walton was arrested the following day by Redwood City police officers, who received suspect information from Antioch, which distributed it to all Bay Area police agencies. Walton was spotted at a train station in Redwood City and arrested.
