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Reward reinstated for alleged sword slayer

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Jesus Humberto Canales (47661)
Jesus Humberto Canales

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — The Board of Supervisors voted today to reinstate a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of a man alleged to have fatally stabbed his 26-year-old girlfriend with a sword in her Quartz Hill apartment in 2008.

Supervisor Michael Antonovich recommended re-offering the reward, which expired five years ago. He said Jesus Humberto Canales killed Lucy Preciado in front of her four children at about 2 a.m. on July 12, 2008.

Preciado’s 9-year-old daughter Marina called 911 for help. Sheriff’s spokesman Steve Whitmore said at the time that the recording was “so horrendous it made a couple of the homicide detectives cry.”

Police who sought Canales after the homicide warned that the El Salvador native was armed and dangerous.

Canales’ van, a 2002 bronze GMC Safari, was found abandoned in a McDonald’s parking lot in Pomona two days after Preciado’s death. A U.S Marshal tracked Canales to Chaparral, New Mexico, according to the Las Cruces Sun-News, but he eluded capture.

Canales was described on the television show “America’s Most Wanted: America Fights Back” as 5-feet, 7-inches tall and weighing around 200 pounds.

He was shown with a shaved head, a mustache and goatee and wearing glasses.

Authorities said his back was tattooed with the names of Preciado and the couple’s daughter Marina.

It was not immediately known what prompted investigators to request that the reward be re-offered.

Anyone with information was asked to call sheriff’s Sgt. Kevin Lloyd or Detective Jeff Leslie at (323) 890-5500.

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