$1 million bail set for murder suspect caught after Kennewick manhunt

A second suspect in a deadly Eltopia shooting is being held on $1 million bail.

Marco Lombera, 28, made his first appearance in Franklin County Superior Court on Wednesday afternoon after being arrested during a two-hour manhunt Tuesday in Kennewick.

Franklin County prosecutors charged Lombera with first-degree murder about two weeks after Reynaldo Rodriguez-Hernandez’s body was found wrapped in a plastic tarp inside a storage room. He’d been shot in the head three times.

Prosecutor Shawn Sant asked that Lombera’s bail remain at the $1 million that was set on the arrest warrant. And Judge Sam Swanberg agreed.

Lombera’s next appearance in court will be in May.

Pedro Bucio, 32, is also charged with first-degree murder in the death of Rodriguez-Hernandez. He remains in the Franklin County jail on $1 million bail.

Rodriguez-Hernandez, 19, often stayed at the Eltopia house on Tuck Road with Bucio and his parents, according to court records.

When someone at the house found the teen’s body on April 4, Bucio was not there.

Detectives and U.S. Marshals spent two days hunting for him before tracking him to a Kennewick motel.

Investigators learned one of Lombera’s friends rented the room for Bucio and Lombera, said court documents.

Lombera also allegedly told another friend that he had “smoked a guy,” though the following day he claimed a friend “smoked” the man because of a unpaid debt.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Marshals violent fugitive task force spotted Lombera driving a U-Haul pickup truck in Kennewick.

That led to a chase in Kennewick and then a manhunt through a Kellogg Street neighborhood when Lombera ran from the truck and tried to hide in a house.

A police dog tracked him down.