Colombian murder fugitive has been living in Massachusetts, US for 27 years under alias, FBI says
Updated: Apr. 14, 2022, 2:18 p.m. | Published: Apr. 14, 2022, 9:04 a.m.
By Heather Morrison | hmorrison@masslive.com
A man wanted in Colombia for killing his wife and attempting to kill his daughter has been living in Massachusetts for decades under an alias, the FBI said.
In 1994, William Hernando Usma Acosta, 61, shot his wife Laura Rose Agudelo, and shot his daughter when she tried to intervene, officials said. He then fled Colombia and crossed from Mexico into the United States in 1995.
Three years later, Usma Acosta, who went by the alias Carlos Alberto Rendon, remarried and the two eventually had a son, officials said. He has been living in Massachusetts since 1998.
In 2020, he submitted an application for naturalization to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services under the name Rendon but had to include his Colombian birth certificate and fingerprints.
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Man convicted in Colombia of murdering his wife arrested after 27 years on the run, FBI says
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By Melissa Alonso, CNN
Updated 12:20 PM ET, Thu April 14, 2022
Colombian fugitive William Hernando Usma Acosta was arrested Wednesday, the FBI said.
(CNN)A man who fled to the US from Colombia after the murder his wife in 1994 was arrested Wednesday in Massachusetts, the FBI said in a news release.
William Hernando Usma Acosta, 61, had been living in Belmont under the alias Carlos Alberto Rendon after entering the US illegally in 1995, authorities said.
"The murder was the result of a domestic violence incident in which Usma Acosta shot and killed his wife (Laura Rose Agudelo) and then shot his daughter as she tried to intervene," the FBI release states. He fled Colombia shortly after the killing and was the subject of an Interpol Red Notice, the FBI said.
William Hernando Usma Acosta
In 1996, Usma Acosta was convicted in absentia in Colombia's Seventh Circuit Penal Court of Medellin and sentenced to 45 years in prison on charges of aggravated murder, aggravated attempted murder, and illegal possession of a firearm, the FBI said. His sentence was later "reduced to 28 years and six months based on new sentencing guidelines," the news release states.
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