YOUNGSTOWN –The U.S. Marshals Service arrested Eddie L. Winphrie, 42, late Monday in Columbus on aggravated murder and other charges in the Oct. 17, 2024, shooting death of Reynaldo Hernandez, 24, at a home in the 2300 block of Bott Street on Youngstown’s East Side.

A U.S. Marshals Service news release states that the U.S. Marshals-led Southern Ohio Fugitive Apprehension Strike Team made the arrest after Winphrie had been on the run for over a year.

In addition to the charges of aggravated murder, murder, aggravated robbery, tampering with evidence and being a felon in possession of a firearm in the Hernandez murder, Winphrie was wanted by the Mahoning County Sheriff’s Office on charges of fentanyl trafficking, aggravated drug trafficking and cocaine trafficking.

The news release recounted some details of the Hernandez killing. Youngstown police responded to Bott Street and began an investigation, the news release states.

The following day, Hernandez’s body was discovered at Mount Hope Veterans Memorial Cemetery, also on the East Side, not far from Bott Street.

A warrant for Winphrie’s arrest was issued Oct. 23, 2024. Investigators with the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force began searching for Winphrie and several co-defendants.

On Monday, NOVFTF investigators developed information regarding Winphrie’s whereabouts in Columbus. At 10 p.m., the “SOFAST” officers located and arrested Winphrie at a home in the 1300 block of Crestwood Avenue. He was booked into the Franklin County jail and is awaiting extradition to Youngstown, the release states.

According to Mahoning County Common Pleas Court records, Winphrie was indicted on the charges related to the Hernandez murder on Oct. 31, 2024. The aggravated murder, murder and aggravated robbery charges he faces each also contain a firearm specification.

Winphrie, who had an address on West Hylda Avenue in Youngstown at the time of his indictment, was not available to be arraigned on the charges.

OTHER DEFENDANTS

In addition to Winphrie, five other people were indicted in the Hernandez murder, including Andre K. Bailey, now 41, who lived at the Bott Street home. Bailey and a third man, Vincent Marbley, now 61, were indicted on the same charges. Marbley’s address in Youngstown was on Elliott Lane.

Bailey is currently an inmate at the London Correctional Institution after Visiting Judge W. Wyatt McKay of Mahoning County Common Pleas Court sentenced Bailey to 39 years to life in prison for his role in Hernandez’s killing. A jury found Bailey guilty on all counts March 3, 2025.

In closing arguments in Bailey’s trial, Mahoning County Assistant Prosecutor John Juhasz said surveillance videos in Bailey’s home showed Hernandez inside the home with a blood stain on the back of his shirt after he arrived there.

Juhasz said it showed Bailey “with a gun, pointing it” inside the home. It does not show Hernandez being shot, Juhasz said. The footage showed “brooms. They’ve got mops. They’re moving furniture. They’re rolling up rugs. They’re using bleach,” Juhasz said of the men in the home trying to remove evidence of the killing.

ONE SUSPECT LEFT

The U.S. Marshal’s news release states that the organization is offering a reward for information leading to the arrest of the last suspect in the case, Marbley, who is described as a black male, approximately 5 feet 6 inches tall and weighing about 145 pounds. He is known to frequent the Youngstown, Cleveland and Columbus areas.

U.S. Marshal Pete Elliott stated in the release that the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force kept trying to locate Winphrie for about 18 months.

“This violent fugitive was on the run for a year and half, and our task force officers never stopped pursuing him. Last night’s arrest by our counterparts with SOFAST was the culmination of months of tireless investigative efforts.”

Anyone with information concerning a wanted fugitive can contact the Northern Ohio Violent Fugitive Task Force at 1-866-492-6833, or they can submit a web tip. Reward money is available, and tipsters may remain anonymous. The release encourages the public to follow the U.S. Marshals on Twitter @USMSCleveland.

In addition to Bailey, Winphrie and Marbley, three other men were indicted in the case who were there when it happened and participated in tasks such as cleaning up after the shooting, putting Hernandez in a car and taking him to the area of the cemetery mere minutes before the first Youngstown police officers arrived at the Bott Street home at 6:47 p.m.

Each of those three men was convicted and sentenced to a year or so in prison.

Police described the home on Bott Street as a drug house.

On the first day or testimony in the Bailey trial, an Amazon delivery driver testified he was on the front porch of the home, placed a package on the porch and took a photo of it when he heard apparent gunshots inside the house and a sort of scream, then returned to his delivery vehicle across the street.

A person in a car backed out of the driveway, hitting his vehicle, the Amazon driver testified. He said he and the other driver left the area quickly. The delivery driver called his company, went to a nearby Youngstown fire station and reported what he saw and heard.

The 7th District Court of Appeals upheld Bailey’s convictions and sentence in December. The ruling called the killing an “apparently drug-related robbery.”