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SATURDAY MARCH 25 2017 3A LocalSACBEE.COM SACBEE.COM/LOCAL FACEBOOK.COM/SACRAMENTOBEE TWITTER.COM/@SACBEE_NEWS he man arrested in connection with a quadruple homicide Thurs- day in South Land Park neighborhood is an employee of the California Employment Development Depart- ment, state officials said Friday. Salvador Vasquez-Oliva, 56, was booked into the Sacramento County Main Jail early Friday morning on four counts of murder. He is suspected of killing two children and two others at a home in the 1100 block of 35th Avenue, an area of neatly kept sin- gle-story houses on tree lined streets, where violent crime is rare. Sacramento Police De- partment officers found the victims Thursday morning when they were called to perform a wel- fare check. Quadruple homicide shakes quiet South Land Park neighborhood As of early Friday eve- ning, police had not con- firmed the relationship of the deceased to Vasquez- Oliva, and the Sacramento County Office had not released the names of the dead.

though an arrest has been made, this re- mains a very active in- vestigation so only limited information can be pro- vided at this the police department said in a written statement Friday A neighbor of the home on 35th Avenue, said a couple with two children, a girl 14 and a boy 11, lived at the house. Property records list an Angelique N. Vasquez, 45, as living at the 35th Ave- nue home along with a Salvador Vasquez. The Sacra- mento state worker salary data- base shows that a wom- an by the same name has worked at the EDD since 2007. Most recently, she was listed as a person- nel technician.

Loree Levy, a spokeswo- man for the Employment Development Depart- ment, said Vasquez-Oliva has worked as an office technician at EDD since October 2012. She said he works in a non-public office, and that the de- partment is cooperating with investigators. EDD Director Pat- rick Henning Jr. shared with our area employees, our hearts and prayers go out to the victims, families and community affected by this horrific tragedy. The department has also made counseling services available to our Levy said in a written statement.

Vasquez-Oliva was de- tained Thursday by officers from the San Francisco Police Department in the area of Pierce Street and Golden Gate Avenue, near the iconic a row of colorful Victorian houses set against San downtown skyline. Online records indicate that Vasquez-Oliva once resided in an apartment on Turk Street in San Francisco, not far from where he was detained. Detectives from the Sacramento Police Depart- ment traveled to San Fran- cisco to continue the in- vestigation, the department said, while others worked the South Land Park neigh- borhood, near 35th Avenue and Gloria Drive. Officers remained on the scene Friday, as a light rain fell outside the house where the bodies were found. Barricade signs and yellow police tape prevent- ed most traffic from trav- eling past the tan ranch- style home.

Only those who lived on the block of 35th Avenue that was closed off were allowed past the signs. An officer lifted the tape to let locals pass. Two large police vans were parked at the house where the homicides al- legedly occurred, as in- vestigators came and went from the house. The case began early Thursday, when a person contacted Sacramento police worried about the safety of the residents of the home near the South Hills Shopping Center. Vasquez-Oliva is sched- uled to be arraigned at 1:30 p.m.

Monday in De- partment 62 on the first floor of the county jail, according to jail records. Nashelly Chavez: 916-321-1188, Bee Staff Writer Sam Stanton contributed to this report. Quadruple slaying suspect identified as state worker BY NASHELLY CHAVEZ AND BILL LINDELOF BILL LINDELOF The Sacramento Bee A portion of 35th Avenue in the South Land Park area remained blocked Friday during a homicide investigation.Salvador Vasquez- Oliva Zero Suit Samus and R.O.B. briefly replaced Cauley-Stein, Hield and Evans on the floor of Golden 1 Center on Wednesday night. Just over 17,000 people watched as Nairoby Quezada, 20, a profes- sional video game player from the NRG ESports organization, beat Caleb Patton, 20, from Hay- ward, during an intense five-minute game of er Smash The play- ers sat on high leather stools as their animated antics were broadcast on the mega- scoreboard.

The brief exhibition game was just a taste of what some of the Kings owners expect will be a much more significant presence for professional video game play in Sacra- new downtown arena. NRG ESports, based in Los Angeles, was founded in 2015 by Kings co-owners Andrew Miller and Mark Mastrov. Form- er NBA star Shaquille and major-league baseball players Alex Rodriguez and Jimmy Rollins have also invested. Miller, a former exec- utive at Leap Motion and Apple, said he got into eSports an umbrella term for professional video gaming after he started going to live tour- naments and witnessed the energy and passion in the stadiums. Some of that was felt in Sacramento earlier this month when members of the local podcast game and Capitol Fight District, a Sacra- mento-based gaming community, hosted a tournament to determine who got to play against Nairo on Wednesday.

Over 50 people attended the to the Golden 1 contest at Pre- game Burgers and Beer on Street, in celebration of NRG coming to Sacra- mento. The Sacramento Kings Dancers even made a special appearance. team NRG was formed (in 2015), my first thought was the Golden 1 said Chance Carson, 18, from Sacra- mento, who stood with the crowd that gathered on the concourse of the Golden 1 Center Wednes- day, as the final four com- petitors from tournament battled for the spot next to Nairo during halftime. Nairo, originally from Passaic, New Jersey, is the third-ranked Smash player in the world. He hung out with the crowd on the con- course Wednesday after- noon before the Kings faced the Milwaukee Bucks, watching the screen as competitors played Nintendo avatars, like Luigi or Princess Peach.

Young fans hugged him tightly as they greet- ed him and asked for autographs. Others were near tears when he ac- cepted their offer to be in a photo. never been at a basketball game, Nairo said, smiling from ear to ear. always like traveling and going to new places. It is definitely something I think I would be doing when I first started playing the he added.

pretty cool that playing something I enjoy ended up being way big- ger than I imagined it would he said. Most eSports profession- al leagues operate much like an NBA team, Miller says. Pro teams, like those who play League of Leg- ends, generally have five players who play different roles, each making salaries ranging from $100,000 to $1 million per year, Miller said. Smash teams have at least one player representing them, and some competitions have players face off one- on-one and play for the best of five matches. Ac- cording to Red Bull, the energy drink company that hosts eSports tourna- HECTOR AMEZCUA Sacramento Kings center Willie Cauley-Stein, right, watches video players during the halftime show as the Kings hosted a Smash video game tournament on Wednesday at Golden 1 Center.

Elite video gamers played on arena big screens at halftime of Kings game BY JESSICA HICE SEE eSPORT, 4A Nairoby Quezada, a professional video game player, beat Caleb Patton in a Super Smash Bros. contest. Lisa Suzanne Burton, the woman accused of helping her son cover up the killing of 6-year-old Jadianna Larsen in 2015, has a warrant out for her arrest Friday after failing to appear before a Sacra- mento judge to set a trial date in the death. Burton, 46, faces a felony count of being an accessory after the fact, suspected of helping son Juan Rivera dispose of the body by taking the keys to her sport-utility vehicle. Sac- ramento County prose- cutors say Rivera used the SUV to haul the body to Glenn County.

The charred re- mains were discovered off a road in the rural county 90 miles north of Sacra- mento on May 28, 2015. Rivera, 25, remains held without bail in Sacra- mento County custody on a murder charge in the death. Prosecutors allege Riv- era sexually assaulted the girl before killing her with a blunt object and dump- ing her body. Rivera, appearing heavi- er, his hair longer, was led into court in shackles Friday. But loca- tion remained an open question.

defense coun- sel, Sacramento County Deputy Public Defender John Buchholz, told Sacra- mento Superior Court Judge Steve White he had not heard from Burton since her release, but was told by friends that she spent time in a Woodland mental health facility since her February release from Sacramento County Main Jail and may be at a second mental health facility in Sacra- mento County. Buchholz after the hear- ing said he planned to work the phones to find his client. Buchholz will have time. White set a May 2018 trial date in the kin- killing the three-year anniversary of death. Burton has a long history of failing to appear in court on lesser crimes, mainly drug-related offenses, according to court records, but the Sacramento woman was nearing the maximum amount of time she could be held in custody without trial, and White at a February hearing ordered her released with a promise to return.

Rivera was watching young Jadianna for his then-girlfriend, the mother, Tanecia Clark, at the south Sacramento apartments where Rivera, Clark and Burton all lived, while Clark was under- going mental health treat- ment, prosecutors said. Authorities received a 911 call late on May 27, 2015, that prosecutors said was placed by Rivera to report Jadianna mis- sing. Rivera told investiga- tors he had a series of seizures and that when he revived, the girl was gone. remains were found the next day. Detectives at Rivera and preliminary hear- ing testified that cell- phone tower pings and surveillance cameras tracked what they suspect was drive from south Sacramento to Glenn County to dispose of the body.

Criminol- ogists also testified that traces of DNA consistent with were found on the clothes. Meantime, a wrongful death suit filed in January by attorneys representing Clark, mother, target Sacramento Coun- ty, Child Protective Serv- ices and the Department of Health and Human Services, alleging they and others repeatedly failed to safeguard Jadianna de- spite reports of abuse. Sacramento County child welfare workers had an open file on Jadianna almost from the time she was born, records showed. Prosecutors at the Fri- day hearing said there are hundreds of pages of Child Protective Services records related to the girl. Darrell Smith: 916-321-1040, Arrest sought for woman accused of helping son cover up killing of 6-year-old BY DARRELL SMITH Lisa Suz- anne Burton Juan Rivera Jadianna Larsen.